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Taxpayers
Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
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 Forest
Reserves $170 Million
Forest Laboratories has set aside $170 million to settle a False Claims Act case related to kickbacks paid to doctors for prescribing antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro to children, as well as for the off-label marketing of Levothroid. Forest notes that "there can be no assurance that the amount reserved by the Company will be sufficient and that a larger material amount will not be required." >> |
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 WellCare
to Pay $80 Million WellCare Health Plans has agreed to pay $80 million to settle charges the company inflated Medicaid charges in Florida. The settlement only applies only to Florida, and does not settle any other state or federal investigations of WellCare. >> To read more |
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 Maxxam
Pays for Forest Fraud
Maxxam Inc., and its Chairman,
Charles Hurwitz,
have agreed to pay
$4 million
to settle a False Claims Act case in which the company is
alleged to have lied and
manipulated a
sustainable yield plan in order to get the Federal
Government to
pay more than it should have to acquire Pacific Lumber assets as
part of the Headwaters Forest protection plan.
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 Shipping
Co. to Pay $26
Million APL Ltd, a shipping firm in Oakland, California, has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a False Claims Act case in which the company was accused of knowingly overcharging and double-billing the Department of Defense in order to transport thousands of containers from ports to inland delivery destinations in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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 DoJ
Joins HSUS Lawsuit Against Slaughterhouse The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a False Claims Act case filed by the U.S. Humane Society against a Southern California slaughterhouse whose workers were videotaped pushing "downer" cows down a chute to be processed into school lunch meats. Westland-Hallmark Meat Co. was, at the time, the second largest supplier of hamburger to the National School Lunch Program, and fraudulently certified that no meat from "downer" cows would enter the food supply. >> |
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 KBR
Is Named in Majority of Iraq Frauds Under
Investigation
April Stephenson,
head of the Pentagon’s contract audit agency,
says KBR is named in
the “vast
majority” of 32 cases referred for criminal
investigation. She told the
Wartime Contracting
Commission
that in the agency’s history,
“I don’t think we are aware of a program, a
contract or a contractor that’s had this number”
of referrals.
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 Merck
Paid Elsevier for Fake Peer-reviewed Journal Merck paid science publisher Elsevier to publish a fake peer-reviewed scientific journal called Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. Elsevier is also the publisher of Health News Daily, The Gray Sheet (coverage of the medical device industry), The Pink Sheet (coverage of the prescription drug industry) and The Green Sheet (a publication for pharmacists). >> |
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