10 months after CEO beats feds in court, Vascular Solutions is sold for $1 billion

In February, Vascular Solutions CEO Howard Root was acquitted of federal charges that he conspired to market medical devices for unapproved uses. Ten months later, Root has decided he would rather step away from the Maple Grove-based business he co-founded and ran for 20 years than face the risks that he says come from running a publicly traded medical device company.

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