"Perjury Probe Urged in AIDS Lab Scandal"

Chicago Tribune (11/06/91), P. 1-5 
Crewdson, John

Abstract: Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is pressing forward a criminal investigation of Dr. Robert C. Gallo, who has been charged with perjury, patent fraud, and obstruction of justice in connection to his AIDS research and his AIDS test. Last week, Dingell, who is worried about a statute of limitations on perjury charges, sent a letter to Michael J. Astrue, general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, demanding to know "precisely what steps" the administration will take to investigate the possible criminal wrongdoings by Gallo. Gallo created a blood test for AIDS that was allegedly developed with an AIDS virus that had been sent to him by the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The French institute filed charges against him in 1986, and the U.S. government denied the accusations and settled them in court. Now, the NIH investigation has determined that the virus was sent to him from France. Dingell's staff developed a 100-page report entitled, "The Great AIDS Cober-Up" that details the many violations made by Gallo.