Richard Carl Fuisz - Middle East

Middle East

In 1981, Baxter International acquired Medcom. Fuisz provided documents to Baxter directors and to The Wall Street Journal showing that Baxter International sold a plant in Israel to comply with the Arab economic and political boycotts of Israel. In 1993 Baxter was the first company to face criminal charges under the anti-boycott law. As a result of Fuisz's documentation and testimony, Baxter pled guilty in March 1993 to violation of U.S. anti-boycott laws and was fined $6.5 million.

He told the House Agriculture Committee in 1992 that Terex Corporation had built mobile Scud missile launchers for Saddam Hussein with the "CIA's blessing". Terex "vigorously denied" the charge and started a libel suit against Fuisz. A 16-month federal investigation concluded that there was "no credible evidence that Terex supplied Scud missile launchers to Iraq" and the New York Times printed a retraction of their Seymour M. Hersh article saying "The Times has no evidence that contradicts the task force's findings."The Sunday Herald in 2005 reported on documents provided by Iraq to the UN naming companies that had provided assistance to Iraq's weapons program. Although the US government attempted to censor the contents, Terex is listed in a table of "UK firms that sold arms to Iraq", arms that involved "rocket" material.