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Claire McCaskill: “How do we trust anything you tell us about your revenue or your R&D expenditure if you do not understand basic terms of…”

On the recordMarch 16, 2016
How do we trust anything you tell us about your revenue or your R&D expenditure if you do not understand basic terms of pharmaceutical industry at your deposition and you do not even understand what your sales are?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

McCaskill expresses distrust in Tilles' knowledge of his company's sales.

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