ASPARTAME RACKETEERING CHARGES

September 15, 2004
National Press Conference, Thursday 9/16, 11:00 A.M.
Sheraton Grand Hotel 1230 J Street Sacramento, Ca

Racketeering Charges Filed Against NutraSweet Co., American Diabetes
Association, Monsanto & Dr Robert H. Moser for Manufacturing and Marketing Toxic Aspartame

San Francisco, CA:

A RACKETEER INFLUENCED & CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS [RICO] complaint has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit, filed by a member of The National Justice League, charges the defendants with manufacturing and marketing a deadly neurotoxin unfit for human consumption, while they assured the public that aspartame (also known as NutraSweet/Equal) contaminated products are safe and healthful, even for children and pregnant women. Present Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is mentioned throughout the lawsuit.

As evidence, an explosive affidavit from a former employee of the G.D.
Searle Co - the developer of aspartame - will be made public at a National
Press Conference on Thursday, September 16 at 11:00 a.m. at the Sheraton
Grand Sacramento Hotel, 1230 J Street, Sacramento, California 95814, phone: (916) 447-1700.

For 16 years, the FDA denied approval of aspartame because of compelling
evidence of its contributing to brain tumors and other serious
disabilities. Donald Rumsfeld, present Secretary of Defense in the Bush
Administration, left President Ford's administration as Chief of Staff to
become the CEO of aspartame producer G D Searle Co. in 1981. Shortly after, Rumsfeld became the CEO, and the day after President Reagan took office, aspartame was quickly approved by FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes over the objections of the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry. Hayes had been recently appointed by the Reagan Administration. Shortly after aspartame's approval by the FDA, Hayes joined NutraSweet's public relations firm under a ten-year contract at $1,000 a day.

Aspartame/NutraSweet was the product of the G. D. Searle Co. In January
1977, the FDA wrote a 33 page letter to U.S. Justice Department Attorney
Sam Skinner: "We request that your office convene a Grand Jury investigation into apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act." Skinner allowed the Statute of Limitations to run.

Three FDA Commissioners and eight other officers and Skinner took jobs
in the aspartame industry shortly after it was approved in 1982.

The Food and Drug Administration once listed 92 adverse reactions from
10,000 consumer complaints and sent the list to all inquirers. In 1996 the
FDA stopped taking complaints and now denies existence of the report.
Seizures, blindness, sexual dysfunction, obesity, testicular, mammary and
brain tumors and death, plus dozens of other dread diseases named in the
suit arise from the consumption of this neurotoxin.

Defendant Moser, past CEO of NutraSweet, is cited for misrepresenting facts to public and commercial users with full knowledge of the deceptions. The toxin is sold to Bayer, Con Agra Foods, Dannon, Smucker, Kellogg, Wrigley, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods (Crystal Light), Conopco (Slim-Fast), Coke, Pfizer, Wal-Mart and Wyeth (to name a few), who use it in some of their products, including children's vitamins. The National Justice League currently has suits filed against these companies in California courts.

Defendant American Diabetes Association's mission is to care for diabetics.
A 35-year ADA member, world famous diabetic specialist H.J. Roberts, M.D., discovered aspartame can precipitate diabetes and reacts harmfully with insulin. ADA rejected his report, which was then published in a prestigious medical journal.

The seven count indictment includes charges for violation of California
Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Fraud, violations of California Civil Code
§1780-1784 and Injunctive Relief: that Defendants be enjoined from future
use/sale of aspartame.

For more information or to request an interview, contact:

Britt Groom, Attorney at Law,
2205 Hilltop Drive #2022
Redding, CA 96002

Message or fax request to (530) 248-3483

Or email:
info@nationaljusticeleague.net


Website: www.nationaljusticeleague.com/

Click to see lawsuit as filed:
http://www.wnho.net/nutrasweet_company_lawsuit.htm

Click to see video: Rumsfeld/Aspartame
http://www.soundandfury.tv/Pages/Rumsfeld2.html