And they've doled out money to a football camp attended by Quackenbush's sons.

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In particular, they have questioned Mr Quackenbush's handling of claims against insurance firms by victims of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

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The case, however, speaks volumes about California's lax campaign-finance laws (surely it is a little absurd to allow insurance commissioners to raise money from insurers), and also about Mr Quackenbush's lack of judgment.

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John Quackenbush, previously a member of TIGR's faculty and a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, says that the "vanity genome, " which he saw as a drain on resources, was one of the things he protested when the TIGR faculty went to the institute's board to try and preserve Fraser's job.

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