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Howard Root: A letter to my prosecutors I’ve written over the years about my friend Howard Root, the founder and former chief executive officer of Vascular Solutions. After his acquittal on the criminal charges brought against him and his company, Howard announced his resignation on the pages of the Wall Street Journal in the February 2017 column “Sally Yates’s legacy of injustice at the Department of Justice.” Howard tells the story of his case in the riveting memoir Cardiac Arrest an...

Copy shortlink: Howard Root, a retired Minnesota med-tech executive who started a company to build electric-powered pontoon boats, said he has sold that firm, Elux Marine, to Pure Watercraft, an electric-boating technology leader based in Seattle. Root and his partner, Bart Jones, a boat restorer and builder based west of Lake Minnetonka, developed a couple of electronic-pontoon lines that created small waves of interest. Even as it was producing its first sales last yea...