Doctor Brown is the stage persona of American comedian Philip Burgers.

BBC: Clown Doctor Brown wins Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award

It said Mr Brown's independent adviser on ministerial interests, Sir Philip Mawer, scrutinised the declarations ahead of publication.

BBC: Ministers 'must open up finances'

House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Va.), after consulting with the ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), served subpoenas to Geoffrey Bible of Philip Morris, Steven Goldstone of RJR Nabisco, Nicholas Brookes of Brown and Williamson, Laurence Tisch of the Loews Corp.

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