Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones

When it comes to notorious Bush political appointees, Daniel Troy’s name doesn’t usually make the top-10 list, overshadowed as he is by more high profile cronies such as FEMA’s Michael Brown. But for three years in the president’s first term, Troy served as the chief counsel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he quietly advanced a legal revolution that is playing out in earnest in the U.S. Supreme Court this year. This revolution has the potential to affect the health and safety of the nation’s citizens for years to come, all while making Troy a rich man. In fact, his career is an illustration of how the Bush administration’s revolving door has allowed industry lawyers to radically reshape regulatory agencies to benefit the big businesses they once represented and then profit from those changes when they return to the private sector.

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