Cardiac Arrest: Howard Root speaks

Howard is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. Among other things, he is a corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur, inventor and corporate executive. He touched on one aspect of his story in the Wall Street Journal column “Sally Yates’s legacy of injustice at the Department of Justice.”

In the fuller version of the story he tells in his Power Point presentation, we have personal interest, self-deprecating humor, intense human drama, life lessons, political angles, action items, the medical device business, federal regulation and the administrative state, criminal law, and (as in Howard’s column) Sally Yates and the Department of (In)Justice. And that’s not all! We also have Amy Klobuchar and the Star Tribune. It’s a riveting story and an incredibly rich case study. Don’t miss this one.

Cardiac Arrest: Five Heart-Stopping Years as a CEO On the Feds’ Hit-List Paperback – January 2, 2017
by Howard Root (Author), Stephen Saltarelli (Author)

Who polices America s prosecutors? And when they set their sights on an innocent CEO, can he survive a 5-year, $25 million legallabyrinth to save the company he built, and himself from prison?Howard Root started Vascular Solutions with little more than a dream and an idea for a single medical device. Fifteen years later, his Minnesota company had created over 500 American jobs and developed more than 50 new medical devices that saved andimproved lives.But in 2011, the federal government threatened to destroy his company and put Howard behind bars for years. Why?Federal prosecutors had been sold a bill of goods a tall tale peddled by a money-hungry ex-employee out for revenge. All over one device.

A device that never harmed a single patient and made up less than 1% of the company s sales.The investigation revealed the charges to be baseless, but the scalp-hunting prosecutors didn t back off. Instead they dug in threatening witnesses, misleading grand juries, and strategically leaking secret documents. Whatever it took to pressure a headline grabbing settlement.Howard Root stood up to the shakedown. Five years, 121 attorneys and $25 million in legal fees later, his life s work and freedom rested in the hands of 12 strangers in a San Antonio jury room. Would Howard and his company be vindicated by the verdict, or hadhe made the biggest mistake of his life by challenging the federal government? Cardiac Arrest is the eye-opening true story of life on the Feds hit-list, told from the desk of a CEO who decided to fight back.

Follow Howard from the boardroom to thecourtroom, as he tells the inside story of the case that sparked outrage in the pages of The Wall Street Journal and triggered a congressional investigation.”

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