Money means nothing if they get charged a fraction of what they made in profits...
Money means nothing if they get charged a fraction of what they made in profits...
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If found guilty, you can be banned from doing any business with Medicare and Medicaid in the US - that’s already a part of the law and it’s the same as losing 50% of your revenue in perpetuity.
But it’s never used. Well, they used it on Pfizer, but the agreement was the ban was for a shell company they owned that didn’t actually sell any drugs. A sacrificial lamb if you will.
“A Pfizer subsidiary, Pharmacia and Upjohn Inc., which was acquired in 2003, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony misbranding.”
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2009/09/03/pfizer-must-p...
2010-June-30: $1094M
2011-June-30: $1076M
2012-June-30: $1342M
2013-June-30: $1608M
2014-June-30: $2140M
2015-June-30: $3490M
Also, because someone asked, edgar has a bar chart breakdown of Biogen's product revenue. The lawsuit was about Biogen's drugs Avonex, Tysabri and Tecfidera. The bar chart (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/875045/0000875045150...) seems to indicate that these three were responsible for about 80-83% of Biogen's revenues (and presumably net income?) in 2014.
I guess what we don't know is what their sales would have been like without the kickbacks? Less, presumably? But 0? Probably not.
Not only not going to jail, but didn't even acknowledge any wrongdoing.
So obviously if Abbott tries to poison me again, like I'm going to read the brand name, dude get real, woafs (wastes of a fuck) will poison you until they get shut down...or until they get told "your company is imprisoned, all your staff have to work out of a prison every day under surveillance, cavity search daily, no quitting no hiring, it's forced labor like ordinary prison, you go home at night, that's what you get, anybody who didn't denounce it". The real corporate jail penalty.
Only survivor in the rehab. Only one who didn't gain 40 pounds. The alpha.
EDIT: downvotes are upvotes. So what I say sounds like paranoid or whatever but yeah duh that's how I didn't get fat. Only the paranoid survive? Only the paranoid stay skinny.
I've never been in a position to be recommended or asked to take such drugs, but from my study of them I'm pretty sure I'd personally have probably chosen to risk dealing with reality on its own terms. Certainly a difficult choice.