A non-profit organization supporting research into multiple sclerosis [UCOIDG] that was linked in a lawsuit to an alleged “money laundering thing” at Serono Labs sent a cease-and-desist memo to an M.S. activist, demanding she take down information about the case from her Facebook page. The activist, TV and movie soundtrack singer Joan Beal, told BNET she complied because “I don’t have the stomach for it.”

It’s another example of the way managers are turning to attorneys when debates in the healthcare business get rough. Bayer (BAYRY) recently lost a legal case in Switzerland in which it tried to stop TV reports about deaths associated with its Yaz contraceptive. And GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) once employed a top R&D exec to contact scientists engaged in independent research on its troubled diabetes drug, Avandia, to tell them it was “not [in] anyone’s best interest.”................................

Learn more: http://www.bnet.com/blog/drug-business/ms-charity-wants-8220money-laundering-8221-allegation-scrubbed-from-facebook/8258

Text of email sent to Joan Beal:

Your Facebook page contains libelous statements concerning the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers. It also contains a link to “freepdfhosting.com%2F543bcc781b.pdf&h=f2fcd,” which itself contains a United States District Court complaint THAT WAS FILED UNDER SEAL.

That complaint includes libelous and false statements. The party who allegedly made the statements has denied them.

This firm has been retained by the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers to defend its rights and to seek damages.

Demand is hereby made that you immediately remove the libelous materials from your page, and cause the pdf complaint to be removed from all places in which you have posted it. You are further directed to inform the undersigned when this has been accomplished. However, if you are represented by counsel in this matter, it is your counsel who should contact us.

This demand is sent with a full reservation of all of our client’s rights and remedies, both legal and equitable. These remedies will include, but not be limited to, the economic harm you have caused to our client.

John R. Edwards, Jr., Esq.

Price, Meese, Shulman & D’Arminio, P.C.

Mack-Cali Corporate Center

50 Tice Boulevard

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey 07677

201-391-3737 (fax 201-391-9360)

[UCOIDG]