Another FDA scandal: big bonuses

July 11, 2008

CBS News reports that FDA bureaucrats collected $35 million in bonus pay last year, a year in which the agency was charged with gross incompetence. Who got the biggest one? The person in charge of giving them out. Sigh.


2 Comments

  1. Let’s hear it for accountability.

    Comment by Sheila — July 11, 2008 @ 5:47 pm

  2. Sign me up! I think I could do better at giving out bonuses, especially if I get the biggest one.

    Obviously, bonuses in the FDA are based on something other than good results.

    Comment by Mark — July 11, 2008 @ 6:24 pm

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