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Celgene is was a corporate member of the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC) as of 2011, and was a "Trustee's" level funder of ALEC's 2016 Annual Conference, which in 2010 equated to $5,000. <ref>Nick Surgey and Calvin Sloan, "[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/07/28/revealed-aarp-funding-alec/ Revealed: AARP Is Funding ALEC]," ''Exposed by CMD'', Center for Media and Democracy, July 28, 2016.</ref> As of 2011 Greg Chesmore, Director of State Government Relations at Celgene,<ref>Greg Chesmore, Director of State Government Relations, Celgene Corporation, [http://www.scribd.com/doc/51654823/Writing-Alec-Legislation Email to Leah Vukmir], Wisconsin state legislator and ALEC member, September 24, 2009, open records request email posted on Scribd by Cory Liebmann, March 27, 2011</ref> represents represented Celgene as the ALEC [[ALEC State Chairmen|State corporate co-chair]] of Illinois<ref name="Corporate Chairs">American Legislative Exchange Council, "Solutions for the States," 38th Annual Meeting agenda, on file with CMD, August 3-6, 2011</ref> alongside Sen. [[Kirk Dillard]] (R) and Rep. [[Renée Kosel]] (R).<ref name="Legislative Chairs">American Legislative Exchange Council, [http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=State_Chairmen&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13614 ALEC State Chairmen], organization website, accessed June 30, 2011</ref>