Thursday, September 3, 2009
Pfizer: Biggest Fine Ever
The drug company agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations that it illegally marketed a painkiller. Of the total, $1.2 billion is desginated as a criminal fine. The New York Times article is here, and Ellen Podgor has posts here and here at White Collar Crime Prof.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2009/09/pfizer-biggest-fine-ever.html