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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Pfizer, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Pfizer
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Penalty: $331,485,170
Year: 2009
Date: September 2, 2009
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Kickbacks
Violation Description: Pfizer agreed to pay more than $331 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it paid illegal kickbacks and conducted improper marketing campaigns for more than a dozen of its drugs. This was part of a larger $2.3 billion civil and criminal settlement that also involved 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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