25 Facts About Richard Fuisz

Richard Carl Fuisz was born on December 12,1939 and is an American physician, inventor, entrepreneur, and patent troll, with connections to the United States military and intelligence community.

Richard Fuisz holds more than two hundred patents worldwide, in such diverse fields as drug delivery, interactive media, and cryptography, and has lectured on these topics internationally.

Richard Fuisz was born on December 12,1939, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to Anton Fujs, a Slovenian immigrant from Murska Sobota and Margaret Matus, a Slovenian-American whose parents had migrated from Prekmurje.

Richard Fuisz completed his internship and residency at the Harvard Medical School's Cambridge Hospital campus.

Richard Fuisz learned Arabic so that he could better supervise Medcom's new division, and during this period Medcom became a top supplier of medical training to Middle Eastern militaries.

Richard Fuisz served as president and chief executive officer of Medcom from 1975 until 1982, when the company was purchased by Baxter International, the world's larger supplier of hospital equipment, for $52 million.

Richard Fuisz initially offered to stay on for a three-year transition period to introduce the new ownership to his clients, but he was instead fired by Baxter chief executive Vernon Loucks.

Richard Fuisz alleged that Baxter sold their Ashdod facility to Teva Pharmaceutical while simultaneously negotiating the construction of a similar plant in Syria, and that, for this reason, in 1989, they were removed from the Arab League's blacklist.

In 1988, Richard Fuisz was approached by Yuri Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, to set up a modeling agency that would prepare young Soviet models for American markets.

The first model Richard Fuisz was to oversee was Yulia Sukhanova, the first-ever Miss USSR, but hard-liners in the Moscow City Council obstructed Richard Fuisz's efforts to secure Sukhanova's visa.

The article described an affidavit Richard Fuisz had submitted to the United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations, which was investigating American heavy equipment manufacturer Terex Corp.

Richard Fuisz, who had been involved in business in the Middle East for many years, was representing a Saudi family interested in purchasing a heavy equipment company when he was given a tour of the Terex plant in Motherwell, Scotland in September 1987.

When Richard Fuisz questioned Terex Vice President David Langevin about the vehicles, he claims he was told that the shipments had been requested by the CIA, with the cooperation of British intelligence.

Richard Fuisz's allegations were corroborated by a former Terex employee interviewed by the House Committee, who had been fired after raising questions about the company's bookkeeping.

Richard Fuisz claimed that he had attempted to bring Terex's arms deals to the attention of the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in 1987, but committee chairman John Dingell had refused to act.

Richard Fuisz speculated that the Terex production was covered up out of fear of backlash from the patriotic demographic of American truck drivers, who drove vehicles manufactured almost exclusively by Fruehauf Corp.

In March 1993, the US Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in the trial and invoked the state secrets privilege to bar Richard Fuisz from testifying in his own defense.

In June 1988, Richard Fuisz founded Chantilly, Virginia-based medical technology firm Richard Fuisz Technologies Ltd.

At around the same time, Richard Fuisz resigned as CEO and hired Ken McVey, previously of Irish biotechnology firm Elan Corp.

In May 2000, Megrahi's lawyer Eddie MacKechnie wrote to Department of Justice Lockerbie prosecutor Brian Murtagh to determine whether Richard Fuisz was indeed barred from testifying; Murtagh replied that although Richard Fuisz was still subject to a gag order related to the Terex libel suit, he was free to speak openly about the Pan Am bombing.

Richard Fuisz insisted that this was not true, that he was subject to a "statutory obligation of secrecy" independent of the Terex litigation, and that he had been specifically advised by Murtagh and another DOJ lawyer to remain silent about Lockerbie.

Lindauer claimed that Richard Fuisz had infiltrated a network of Syrian terrorists tied to Iranian Hezbollah who were holding Americans hostage in Beirut, and that he was "first on the ground" in the investigation of the Lockerbie bombing because of his extensive contacts in Syria, but the CIA was destroying his reports instead of submitting them to investigators.

In 2000, the same year he was named to the board of directors of Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Richard Fuisz founded International Fluidics, another firm dedicated primarily to oral drug delivery systems; its name was changed to Kosmos Pharma in 2002.

Richard Fuisz vociferously denied the allegations and defended himself pro se.

Richard Fuisz was credited in the book Bad Blood with connecting the author John Carreyrou with the former medical director of Theranos, exposing Theranos's fraudulent blood testing system.