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 and in his May 2017 Power Point presentation on it for the Center of the American Experiment (video at bottom).