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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Rite Aid Corporation
Current Parent Company: Rite Aid
Penalty: $1,400,000
Year: 2004
Date: June 25, 2004
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Rite Aid Corporation agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it submitted false prescription claims to government health insurance programs by billing for drugs that were never delivered to beneficiaries and were later returned to stock. This was part of a larger $7 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: Pennsylvania
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-pharmacies
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.