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Cardinal
Health hires Justice Department's former No. 2
DUBLIN, March
18, 2008 (AP): A former top Justice Department official and
federal prosecutor who helped put an
Ohio
congressman behind bars has been hired by health care products and
services company Cardinal Health Inc.
Craig
Morford,
49, left his position as the Justice Department's No. 2 official
earlier this month. At Cardinal Health, he'll oversee compliance
on regulatory, environmental health and safety issues.
``He brings
deep expertise with regulatory agencies, a strong compliance
background and a reputation for upholding the highest standards of
ethics and integrity,'' Cardinal chief executive officer R. Kerry
Clark said in a statement.
Morford was
appointed acting deputy
U.S.
attorney general last year by President Bush. He left after the
Senate voted on March 3 to confirm former federal judge Mark R.
Filip for the post.
The
suburban Columbus-based Cardinal Health said Morford will join
Cardinal Health on May 5. Daniel Walsh, who created the company's
ethics and compliance department, will leave the company.
Morford is
a career prosecutor who pursued organized crime and public
corruption in Ohio, Michigan, and Tennessee for 20 years.
As an
assistant U.S. attorney based in Cleveland, Morford led the case
against Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant of Youngstown.
Traficant was convicted in 2002 of accepting bribes and gifts from
businessmen in exchange for intervening with government agencies.
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch,
http://www.dispatch.com
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