60 minutes tobacco scandal Watch on Trial Smoke in the Eye

There are contradictory versions of the evening

Because the tobacco industry had lied to the American public for such a long time, and we had the goods on them

Through an intermediary in the government, Wigand reached out tentatively to Andrew McGuire, whom he had observed in Washington

We had induced the breaking of the agreement between Jeff Wigand and the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, or at least that that would be the accusation that it would go into a courtroom in Kentucky because that's where the headquarters were and that chances are, we were going to lose in Kentucky because that's a big tobacco state

A number of the lawyers representing the states are working on contingencyin some cases hoping to earn fees of 33 percentand recently The Wall Street Journal raised the question Should state governments be getting into bed with the contingency fee bar? Wigand is tentatively scheduled to testify late this spring

Shook, Hardy & Bacon and B&W lawyers were aware of the dangers that the companys research could pose in a lawsuit