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Company: Morris & Dickson
Penalty: $13,750,000
Year: 2024
Date: August 20, 2024
Offense Group: healthcare-related offenses
Primary Offense: Controlled Substances Act violation
Violation Description: Morris & Dickson, a Shreveport-based pharmaceutical distribution company agreed to a $13.75 million settlement with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana. According to the non-prosecution agreement, beginning in January of 2012 and continuing until May of 2018, the company, through its employees and agents, failed to conduct adequate order-level monitoring, and failed to file suspicious order reports with the Drug Enforcement Agency, as required by DEA Regulations. In fact, M&D filed just three suspicious order reports with DEA during the relevant time period. This was the case despite M&D's employees' and agents' awareness not only of the high likelihood that some of M&D's customers were diverting controlled substances, but also of other circumstances that should have resulted in filing suspicious order reports with DEA.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Eastern District of Louisiana
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Prosecution Agreement: non-prosecution agreement
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