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  • GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion for health fraud

    07/02/2012 3:54:47 PM PDT · by Moose4 · 30 replies
    AP via Raleigh News & Obstructor ^ | 2 July 2012 | Jesse J. Holland
    WASHINGTON -- GlaxoSmithKline LLC will pay $3 billion and plead guilty to promoting two popular drugs for unapproved uses and to failing to disclose important safety information on a third in the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Monday. Accompanying the criminal case was a civil settlement in which the government said the company's improper marketing included providing doctors with expensive resort vacations, European hunting trips, high-paid speaking tours and even tickets to a Madonna concert. The $3 billion combined criminal-civil fine will be the largest penalty ever paid by a drug company, Deputy...