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pitch its story to Wall Street. It settled on Mr. Hugin, a managing director at J.P.

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perilous. Celgene had 200 employees and was getting by on less than six weeks of cash when Mr. Hugin joined, according to his campaign biography. A year later, the company warned investors that, Aa€eduring the next several years, we will be very dependent on the commercial success of Thalomid,d4€ while also acknowledging that the market for the only disease for which the drug was approved was Aa€erelatively

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arrived on the market, according to company filings, public statements and internal documents included in the whistle-blower lawsuit Celgene settled in 2017.","type"™:"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body-

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