Yahoo: Pfizer to pay record $2.3B penalty over promotions
Submitted by F-Buzz on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 16:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines Wednesday and called the world's largest drug maker a repeating corporate cheat for illegal drug promotions that plied doctors with free golf, massages, and resort junkets.
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Pfizer and the other criminal druglords should all be disbanded.
Period.
And not one single idiot out
And not one single idiot out there stops to wonder why this sort of thing is a problem only in industries where the government ends up paying; like drugs, military procurement and public works projects. Never heard of any chewing gum maker being prosecuted for taking convenience store clerks on expensive junkets, and neither have, I bet, anyone else.
This entire non issue would be completely moot, if drugs were sold like any other product. Not by a gang of self anointed overlords permitted to, at the barrel of a gun, tell the rest of us what and how much to buy, and what we have to pay for it.
US vs. Chewlies Gum
This was a case in 1994 where the Chewlies Gum Company was fined for having representatives pose as anti-smoking crusaders in an effort to get people to purchase more of their product. I believe the fine was around $100