... a 70-year old chief medical officer at the California-based firm Immix Biopharma was found to be a fugitive sex predator who disappeared during his 2005 trial. Though he went by Richard Graydon in the more than twenty years since, his real name turns out to be Ronald Fischer — an anesthesiologist accused of raping numerous women on his various yachts (yes, plural).

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[–] 119 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Thought this was the Onion. Almost like "man accused of pedophilia caught hiding as POTUS".

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Refusing to abandon his yachts or the medical career that paid for them, [...] Fischer was arrested after US Marshals boarded his 56-foot vessel, The Silver Lining, as it sailed down New York’s East River.

    The Onion qualities don't stop there

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  • [–] 87 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    To be fair, a rapist would fit right in with phama leadership.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Literally in the first paragraph:

    ...hid out in one of the places you’d most expect — the corner office of a Big Pharma company.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    How does one get away with this during this day and age? It seems like it would be close to impossible without some help from a government employee or something. Maybe there's a black market.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume he's white and wealthy/connected.

    *Edit: I should probably just read the damn article before jumping to conclusions but the "raping women on his yachts" part seems to back this suspicion up.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You mean a man who Committed HORRIBLE Sex Crimes was Hiding as someone who DIRECTLY makes Policies for Americans? AND was doing that With Jeffrey Epstein's BEST FRIENDS in Congress? That's NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to Imagine!

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    I have had to go through so many background checks and have had to prove identity and work status to get a job. How can you become an exec of a modern company on a fake name?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    I think at a certain level (i.e. "this guy is going to make us millions of dollars and my buddy plays pickleball with him") those checks are probably waived.

    Like many other things go these days, the experience is completely different if you're in the club.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    If undocumented immigrants can pay dealers to get social security numbers, then a doctor/executive certainly can as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think people misunderstand your comment.

    What I suspect you're saying is that if those in a disadvantageous position, likely having limited financial, social, and political capital, can acquire a fictitious, functional identity, then someone with the means to afford multiple yachts absolutely can do so.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Indeed. That's what I meant. It's not a dig on undocumented folks. It's just a simple fact that if people with very few resources, who may not even speak English can manage to obtain fake IDs allowing them to find work in the US, then someone with yacht money certainly can as well.

    If undocumented immigrants want any work other than cash day labor, they have to obtain an ID. Often this is through brokers. Sometimes one person will rent out their social security number to multiple other people. Sometimes the SSNs of dead people get bought and sold.

    But for any serious job in the US, you'll have to get past the e-verify system. And that requires documents. And if undocumented immigrants can obtain that paperwork, so can a doctor or executive.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Wait, these are crimes separate from his day to day work as a pharma executive?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Yeah, he stopped getting off on raping just one or two people at a time so he became a big pharma executive so he can rape tens of thousands to millions with each decision.

    Remember seeing that cancer pill that costs under $1 in other countries and like $800+ each in the US? That's one of his.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, no shit? That's almost too coincidental, but absolutely believable

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yet somehow his crimes against humanity as a pharma exec remain unpunished.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Biotech CEOs are all psychopaths, this is not surprising at all.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    What was he supposed to do, stop committing horrific crimes?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    2005 was twenty years ago? WTF?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    It is too late. I hope he has a good sex life in prison. There are plenty of sexual predators who will help him experience what it is like to be a victim.

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