Gerson Lehrman
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Gerson Lehrman
 The complaint, which seeks damages of $4.6 billion, lists 22 defendants, including Steven A. Cohen, the founder of SAC, Gradient, James Carr Bettis, founder and chief executive of Gradient and Donn Vickrey, founder and co-owner of Gradient, Mr. Maris of Banc of America Securities; and the Gerson Lehrman Group, a company based in New York that connects investors with experts in fields like pharmaceuticals. The lawsuit accuses the Gerson Lehrman Group and other defendants of paying two doctors in 2003 to give false information to reporters suggesting Biovail had set up a program to bribe them to prescribe a Biovail drug.