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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Pfizer Inc.
Current Parent Company: Pfizer
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $21,084,700
Year: 2002
Date: October 28, 2002
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Pfizer agreed to pay $21 million to settle multistate litigation alleging it violated the False Claims Act by failing to fully pay the rebates owed to state governments for the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor. This was part of a larger $49 million settlement involving the federal government; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New York
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.