...In 2009, Genentech and Morris found themselves in the news when The New York Times reported that 12 members of Congress entered remarks into the Congressional Record that were written by Genentech’s lobbyists. Many of the members who reprinted Genentech’s statements as their own also received contributions from the company’s PAC and employees. Morris told the Times, “There was no connection between the contributions and the statements.”

Morris’ neighbors, like his colleagues on K Street, were stunned by the news of his death. The night before his suicide, Morris had held a big Democratic Party fundraiser at his home in his conservative Alexandria, Virginia, neighborhood, where Gov. Terry McAuliffe stayed till late in the evening. The street leading to their house was lined with cars. A Democratic Party flag flew from their front porch...

Morris had gotten his start in D.C. at 18 as a gopher in the Clinton White House. He told one trade publication that “he learned a lasting lesson from his boss, the deputy chief of staff.”

“Speak truth to power, no matter how powerful the individual or how ugly the truth,” he recalled the deputy chief of staff telling him. “At the end of the day, that’s how I want to be known.”

And then there is a suicide contact number