Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Merrell Williams Jr., Paralegal Who Bared Big Tobacco, Dies at 72

Merrell Williams Jr., a former paralegal who leaked mountains of internal documents of the Brown Williamson Tobacco Company in 1994, fueling lawsuits that resulted in an industry payout of billions of dollars to pay smokers’ medical bills, died on Nov. 18 in Ocean Springs, Miss. He was 72. …

Source:Merrell Williams Jr., Paralegal Who Bared Big Tobacco, Dies at 72



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