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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Mallinckrodt LLC
Current Parent Company: Mallinckrodt
Penalty: $3,500,000
Year: 2013
Date: July 18, 2013
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Violation Description: Mallinckrodt LLC, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, agreed to pay $3.5 million to eight states and the federal government to settle allegations that it made improper payments to physicians and, as a result, caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid between January 2005 and June 2010. The settlement was also announced by the U.S. Justice Department; 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: Ireland
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.