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The Department of Justice blamed Pfizer 's management for the $2.3 billion Bextra settlement by creating a "corporate culture" in which off-label promotion was encouraged, and where not going along was regarded as a "CLM" or career-limiting move.

Pfizer Inc. subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. has been sentenced to pay the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the U.S. for misbranding the pain medication Bextra, the U.S. Justice Department said late Friday.

Dr. Dennis Mangano alleges Pfizer stole information from a database on medical research he helped create.

Making lifesaving drugs doesn't give a company license to fraudulently market its medicines.

Pharmacia & Upjohn Co., a subsidiary of drug giant Pfizer Inc. , has agreed to pay fines totaling $1.3 billion for felony violations for advertising its anti-inflammatory drug Bextra for uses that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration .

Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, agrees to pay $2.3 billion in connection with illegal drug promotions in a record legal settlement with the government.

Opinion / Editorial : Repeat Offender Pfizer Pays Record $2.3 Billion Fraud Settlement Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in its History Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/justice_090209.htm FBI Press release BBC: Pfizer agrees record fraud fine ...

" Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a coalition of state attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice today resolved a lengthy civil Medicaid fraud investigation into Pfizer, Inc.

NEW YORK Pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer Inc. finalized an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle an investigation on past promotional practices for the drug Bextra a product voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2005.

Pfizer has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to settle a fraud claim over its marketing of a pain-killing drug, Bextra, and some other drugs.

The Attorney General's office announced today that the State of Delaware, along with other states and the federal government, has reached agreement with Pfizer Inc to settle civil and criminal allegations that the company and its subsidiaries paid kickbacks and engaged in improper marketing of numerous drugs that it manufactures.

Company pays $1.3bn fine as part of $2.3bn settlement for misbranding medicines and giving kickbacks to doctors Pfizer, the world's largest drugs company, has been hit with the biggest criminal fine in US history as part of a $2.3bn settlement with federal prosecutors for mispromoting medicines and for paying kickbacks to compliant doctors.

Pfizer fined $2.3b for illegal drug marketing Company promoted medications for unapproved uses, critics say By TOM MURPHY The Associated Press Sat.

WASHINGTON: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc will pay a record $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal charges about how it marketed some of its drugs under a settlement to be unveiled on Wednesday, a source familiar with the settlement said.

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Pfizer Inc. sales folks had one tough customer in psychiatrist Stefan Kruszewski.

Florida will receive a total of $58.2 million as part of a global settlement with Pfizer Inc.A The agreement resolves civil and criminal allegations that Pfizer and its subsidiaries paid kickbacks and engaged in off-labeling marketing campaigns that improperly promoted numerous drugs that Pfizer manufactures, according to Attorney General Bill ...

President Obama will address a joint session of Congress next Wednesday Sept. 09, it was announced today.

People familiar with a record legal settlement to be announced Wednesday say that Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, will pay $2.3 billion in connection with illegal drug promotions.