60 minutes tobacco scandal Jeffrey Wigand Who is Sharyn Alfonsi? Reporter

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He is mired in a swamp of charges and countercharges hurled at him by his former employer, the third-largest tobacco company in the nation, the manufacturer of Kool, Viceroy, and Capri cigarettes

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

I could see right up front that Jeff was going to wind up testifying

phone calls were their standard operating techniques, but they shared a passion for corporate intrigue, and together had helped break the Iraq-gate bank scandal in 1992 and examine the accusations of child abuse at the McMartin Pre-School in Los Angeles in 1986