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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Purdue Frederick Company Inc.
Current Parent Company: Purdue Pharma
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Penalty: $160,000,000
Year: 2007
Date: May 10, 2007
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: opioid crisis litigation
Mega-Scandal: Opioid Crisis
Violation Description: Purdue Frederick agreed to pay $160 million to settle multistate litigation alleging it misbranded its addictive and highly abusable drug OxyContin and thus caused false claims to be submitted to state Medicaid programs. This was part of a larger $461 million resolution 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: Connecticut
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.