its and super PACS in the form of a 12.5 commis- sion on the money raised. In San Diego, Clinton’s
major cash-raising target has been La Jolla Demo- cratic billionaire Irwin Jacobs, who has given mil- lions of dollars to her sup- port groups and reportedly became upset when the Times revealed the com- mission arrangements in a February 2015 report. “I was not aware that
consultants might be paid a percentage of the politi- cal contributions that they raise,” the Times quoted Jacobs as saying in an email to the paper regarding another Clinton fundraiser. For her part, Bonner told the Times
that she disclosed her cut to those she solicited on behalf of Clinton. In Baron’s case, Bon-
ner’s target was La Jolla– based Biogen Idec, a drug maker created by UCSD physician and immunol- ogist Ivor Royston and San Diego bio-entrepre- neur Howard Birndorf, that was known as Idec until its 2003 merger with Biogen. “There is a drug — Tys-
abri — made by Biogen that is given for multiple sclerosis, but is now in clinical trials for use on Multiple Myeloma,” Bon- ner continued on behalf of Baron. “Fred’s [doctors] at
Mayo think this drug is
his only chance, but Bio- gen won’t approve for Fred because he is too sick and if it fails him, it could skew the outcome of the trials (this told to me by his wife).” Bonner’s message
quoted Baron’s wife as saying, “It’s bullshit. If I am unable to get drug, I will take out [a full-page advertisement] in Boston Globe to CEO and board members. Fred is running out of time. He’s so sick and needs this drug.” The email alludes
to pressuring Biogen Idec’s then–chief execu- tive through the com- pany’s lobbyists. “Fred needs a com-
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[Mullen] on Monday to argue that they could release this drug for Mayo [doctors] to administer to Fred, and have the FDA ‘carve’ it out of being fac- tored in the clinical trials. See what info you can get me on him, and who rep- resents them in DC.” The email subse-
quently quotes another person regarding unsuc- cessful contacts with the company’s lobbyists, “It is my understanding that they have all tried, but that this CEO is unrelenting.” Former San Diego
Democratic congress- woman and Clinton ally Lynn Schenk, then and now a member of Biogen’s board, was also asked to intercede. “She already called the company,” according to the email. Other political influ-
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replied to Bonner in an October 14, 2008, email, describing his contacts on Baron’s behalf with Capitol Hill influence- peddlers and alluding to the continued hold- out of Biogene’s Mullen. “I’ve worked the dutko,
Blue and stepson Andrew Baron waged a final fight with Biogen for the drug. “The younger Baron
posted an open plea online to Biogen, noting that Bill Clinton, Sens. John Kerry and Edward Kennedy of Massachu- setts, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, and even the head of the Food and Drug Administration had urged the company to recon- sider,” the paper reported. Then, per the Morn-
Lynn Schenk
foley hoag and partners angles. Don’t know that it will mean anything given the pressure he’s already resisted, but hope it helps.” The campaign ulti-
mately resulted in con- tacts between Biogen’s Mullen and then–Food and Drug Administration commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, but it reportedly took the inter- vention of then–House speaker Nancy Pelosi to get the drug administered to Baron, according to an August 2010 account in the Dallas Morning News. During the fall of
2008, as Baron lingered near death, his wife Lisa
ing News account, “Some- how — Blue still isn’t sure how — Pelosi cajoled the FDA to find a legal jus- tification that let Mayo administer the drug, even without Biogen’s consent.” Baron, who had
donated more than a mil- lion dollars to Mayo, died a week prior to Election Day 2008 at age 61. “One thing he taught
me was politics matters. What a personal experi- ence for me to understand how politics matters,” Blue told the paper. “It’s not fair that other
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