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... a 70-year old chief medical officer at the California-based firm Immix Biopharma was found to be a fugitive sex predator who disappeared during his 2005 trial. Though he went by Richard Graydon in the more than twenty years since, his real name turns out to be Ronald Fischer — an anesthesiologist accused of raping numerous women on his various yachts (yes, plural).

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 hours ago

Biotech CEOs are all psychopaths, this is not surprising at all.

[–] UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

What was he supposed to do, stop committing horrific crimes?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

2005 was twenty years ago? WTF?

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

21.5 years even

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yet somehow his crimes against humanity as a pharma exec remain unpunished.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Fairly sure he was rewarded for that part

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have had to go through so many background checks and have had to prove identity and work status to get a job. How can you become an exec of a modern company on a fake name?

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think at a certain level (i.e. "this guy is going to make us millions of dollars and my buddy plays pickleball with him") those checks are probably waived.

Like many other things go these days, the experience is completely different if you're in the club.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 12 hours ago

The adage, "It's not what you know, but who you know," is an adage for that reason.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But how did he stay in the club while being a fugitive from the law? How did he maintain access to his assets?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago

People in this club think of his as petty offenses. Just like you going by red over the street.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 115 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thought this was the Onion. Almost like "man accused of pedophilia caught hiding as POTUS".

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Refusing to abandon his yachts or the medical career that paid for them, [...] Fischer was arrested after US Marshals boarded his 56-foot vessel, The Silver Lining, as it sailed down New York’s East River.

The Onion qualities don't stop there

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, a rapist would fit right in with phama leadership.

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally in the first paragraph:

...hid out in one of the places you’d most expect — the corner office of a Big Pharma company.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reality needs to get better material, we've all heard this one before

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Seriously, the writers are getting lazy.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, these are crimes separate from his day to day work as a pharma executive?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, he stopped getting off on raping just one or two people at a time so he became a big pharma executive so he can rape tens of thousands to millions with each decision.

Remember seeing that cancer pill that costs under $1 in other countries and like $800+ each in the US? That's one of his.

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, no shit? That's almost too coincidental, but absolutely believable

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, I was making that up just to show that the leap from rapist to big pharma exec isn't all that big.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How does one get away with this during this day and age? It seems like it would be close to impossible without some help from a government employee or something. Maybe there's a black market.

[–] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume he's white and wealthy/connected.

*Edit: I should probably just read the damn article before jumping to conclusions but the "raping women on his yachts" part seems to back this suspicion up.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume he's white and wealthy/connected.

My friend that's not a limb, it's a root. You’re still on the lawn. Of course it's a wealthy white dude.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Internet in 2005 was very different plus he’s very rich

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Mainly it’s that he’s very rich.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

With so much connected, online, cameras everywhere, one would think it wouldn't be possible to hide like this, let alone in broad daylight.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean a man who Committed HORRIBLE Sex Crimes was Hiding as someone who DIRECTLY makes Policies for Americans? AND was doing that With Jeffrey Epstein's BEST FRIENDS in Congress? That's NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to Imagine!

[–] Katrisia@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

These elites have some bad apples, huh?

[–] careless@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

It is too late. I hope he has a good sex life in prison. There are plenty of sexual predators who will help him experience what it is like to be a victim.