When I worked for EES th competiion was Automated Instruments, the last USSC distributor in the country.
The Feds went after Leon Hirsch, when the Florida USSC distributor took the hit for HIrsch he let him keep the distributorship in Florida. A few years later the distributor died in a suspicious auto accident. Hmm?
Bill Christy hire me, what a POS. As RM for Florida he decided that EES would double up the number of Automated reps in each city. If there were two in Tampa, EES would have four. If there were three, EES would have six. So on and so on. Looking at old rankings, when I left there were 68 EES reps in Florida. 68!
My field trainer, Richard Cox, was one of the guys who went to prison. He had been promoted to "the institute" in charge of conducting training and labs. What he really did was order sterile product for animate labs, then kept the sterile product that was left over. These leftover were then sold to medical device distributors all over the country. Cox was put face down on his front yard by Feds on Father's Day, then sentenced to 366 days. Why 366? Because anything over a year could not be expunged from his record. EES lawyers, a vindictive bunch.
One of the worse reps was DM, she had worked for Merck, and became "involved' with her boss, Greg Neal. He left his pregnant wife for her. What a turd.
Andy Lopreato, now an Atlanta recruiter, was a small fry in this "TrocarGate" scheme. He was convicted afer receiving a call from the distributor to pick up his check for sterile product and, being too lazy to drive over an pick up a $30K check, he told them to mail it to him. The Feds got him for mail fraud. So stupid.
I worked with some amazing people and I worked for terrible managers. Still keep in touch with some of the people in my endo-mechanical class. The stories told are true, they can't be made up. Some tragic and many unbelievable.
I was sorry to hear of Dr. Aaron Ruhalter's passing several years ago. He sent pangs of anxiety throughout every training class. I found the way to avoid being called on in class was to raise my hand.
Did I mention Bill Christy was an asshole?