A chemist with the Food and Drug Administration pleaded guilty Tuesday to using a confidential drug database to earn nearly $3.8 million by trading the stock of companies with new drug applications. Cheng Yi Liang, a chemist who has worked for the FDA since 1996, acknowledged using the database to find out when the FDA would make announcements regarding new drugs and what the agency’s decision would be.
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