After former Congressman Ed Mezvinsky (D, Iowa) was indicted for fraud for swindling banks and investors out of more than $10 million, he sued the drug manufacturing giant Roche, Philadelphia's Presbyterian Medical Center, his doctor, and a pharmacy, claiming his wrongful conduct arose from psychological side effects of the anti-malaria medication Lariam, which he took while on his business trips to Africa. It was there he happened to fall as well for the same sort of advance-fee scam, which apparently led him to defraud others in an attempt to recoup his losses.

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