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Wigand, enraged at the threats and believing that Bergman notified Sandefur about their confidential meeting, calls and accuses Bergman of treachery.
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Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, the subject of the film, taught science and Japanese at Manual after he was fired by tobacco company Brown & Williamson in 1993.
Bergman is referred to Wigand, and calls him at his home, only to be steadfastly rebuffed.
Curious with Wigand ’ s refusal to even speak to him, Bergman eventually convinces him to meet at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville.
After leaving with the documents, Wigand appears at a meeting with Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur ( Gambon ), who orders him to sign an expanded confidentiality agreement, under threat of revoking his severance pay and medical coverage and initiating legal proceedings.
A lawyer at the meeting claims that Wigand ’ s confidentiality agreement, combined with Big Tobacco ’ s unlimited checkbook, would effectively silence Wigand under mountains of litigation and massive legal fees.
Bergman proposes that Wigand could be compelled to speak through a court order arising from unrelated State litigation against Big Tobacco aimed at recovering Medicare and Medicaid costs arising from tobacco-related illnesses.
The Wigand family move into a newer, more affordable house, and Wigand begins teaching chemistry and Japanese at a Louisville high school.
After bluntly telling Wallace over the phone what he thought of the news broadcast, Bergman attempts to call Wigand at his hotel but receives no answer.
Wigand screams at Bergman, accusing him of manipulating him into his position.
After he and Mann wrote the first draft together, at the bar at the Broadway Deli in Santa Monica, Roth met Wigand.
A crucial and historic battle in the war between the tobacco industry and smokers began with Jeffrey Wigand, a doctor of biochemistry with a career focus on health issues who became the Vice President of Research & Development at Brown & Williamson in 1989.
Fortunately for Wigand, his depositions at the Mississippi and Kentucky state courts were leaked, and were published by the Wall Street Journal as part of an investigative rebuttal to the attacks.
* The Insider ( 1999 )-Based-on-a-true-story, big budget Hollywood feature film chronicles the efforts of Jeffrey Wigand a tobacco industry whistle-blower and a failure to report at CBS News.
Wigand and threats
Enraged over the threats to his family, Wigand phones Bergman and demands to fly to New York and tape his testimony immediately.
Wigand and Bergman
Bergman visits Wigand ’ s house the next day and maintains that he did not reveal anything to Brown & Williamson.
Reassured, Wigand talks to Bergman about the seven CEOs of " Big Tobacco " perjuring themselves to the United States Congress about their awareness of nicotine ’ s addictiveness, and that the CEOs should fear Wigand.
Bergman says Wigand has to decide for himself whether to blow the whistle on big tobacco.
Bergman returns to CBS Headquarters in New York City, where he and Wallace discuss Wigand ’ s situation and the potential damage he could do to Big Tobacco.
The next night, Wigand and Bergman have dinner together, where Bergman asks Wigand about incidents from his past that Big Tobacco might use against him.
The trio express an interest in Bergman ’ s idea and tell him to have Wigand call them.
Upon returning home, Wigand discovers that Bergman has given him some security personnel.
Bergman and Wallace go to a meeting with CBS Corporate about the Wigand interview.
Through Wigand, Bergman discovers that Big Tobacco have distorted and exaggerated numerous claims, and convinces a reporter from the Wall Street Journal to delay the story until it can be disproven.
Per Bergman ’ s request, the hotel manager convinces Wigand to accept Bergman ’ s phone call.
Bergman tells Wigand that he is " important to a lot of people " and tries to assure Wigand that he is doing the right thing by offering that " es like you are in short supply ".
Wigand and Sandefur
Wigand soon found his research and recommendations discouraged, ignored and censored, leading to confrontations with the CEO, Thomas Sandefur.
Wigand demanded its removal, but a successful substitute had not been found and Sandefur refused on the grounds that sales would drop.
This argument led Sandefur to fire Wigand in 1993 and to force him to sign an extended confidentiality agreement forbidding him to speak of anything related to his work or the company.
Wigand and about
The Insider is a 1999 film directed by Michael Mann based on the true story of a 60 Minutes segment about tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand.
When Liane asks about the boxes in Wigand ’ s car, he reveals that he was fired from his job that morning.
In the privacy of the hotel room, Wigand agrees to interpret and explain the scientific tobacco-related documents, but stresses that he cannot talk about anything else because of his confidentiality agreement.
A PR firm hired by Big Tobacco initiates a smear campaign against Wigand, dredging up details about his life and publishing a 500-page dossier.
Peering into Wigand ’ s room, the hotel manager spies Wigand sitting alone, lost in a daydream about the idyllic life he could have led without his testimony.
Crowe was not able to talk to Wigand about his experiences because he was still bound to his confidentiality agreement during much of film ’ s development period.
* " The Man Who Knew Too Much " ( article ), a 1996 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner about Jeffrey Wigand
Wigand and their
During Wigand ’ s interview with Wallace, Wigand states that Brown & Williamson is making their cigarettes more addictive.
A $ 246 billion settlement was made by tobacco companies with Mississippi and other States in their lawsuit and that Wigand lives in South Carolina.
Wigand and meeting
However, as the character Wigand enters the airport, shortly before receiving his subpoena, a woman in the background is seen smoking a cigarette, also, a Lebanese soldier seen smoking briefly while Bergman is being transported to the Hezbollah meeting site.
Wigand and calls
He instead calls the hotel manager, who opens Wigand ’ s door but is stopped by the chain.
Wigand and .
Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as best actor and seven nominations in the same category.
** P. Wigand, Das Femgericht Westfalens ( Hamm, 1825, 2nd ed., Halle, 1893 )
Vytautas escaped to the Teutonic fortress of Marienburg and was baptised there under the name Wigand.
In Hungary, under the influence of Ruskin and Morris, a group of artists and architects, including Károly Kós, Aladár Kreisch and Ede Wigand, discovered the folk art and vernacular architecture of Transylvania.
In Louisville, Kentucky, Jeffrey Wigand ( Crowe ) packs his belongings and leaves his Brown & Williamson office, returning home to his wife Liane ( Venora ) and two children, one of whom suffers from acute asthma.
They conclude this could give Wigand some protection against Brown & Williamson should he do an interview for 60 Minutes.
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