[Bob Dawson]

Slow Train Coming: Pharma perps finally getting busted

http://www.bnet.com/blog/drug-busine...tag=nl.rSINGLE

Jim Edwards' Placebo Effect
(he provides lots of links if you want more info about each case)

Feds Wage War on Pharma CEOs:

A federal judge’s ruling that the former CEO, R&D chief and chief legal counsel of Purdue Pharma cannot get out of their 12-year ban ….. a warning: The feds reserve the right to ruin the careers of executives who behave badly….

….companies continued to break the law, and factored in the settlements as the cost of doing business.

That seems set to be changing. In addition to Purdue, the feds have also crucified these individual executives recently:

• Lauren Stevens, a GlaxoSmithKline lawyer indicted for allegedly lying to the FDA.
• Former InterMune CEO W. Scott Harkonen, convicted of writing a press release that falsely portrayed clinical trial results.
• Stryker president Mark Philip and three of his lieutenants, indicted for selling bone-growth products off-label.
• Abtox CEO Ross Caputo and regulatory affairs chief Robert M. Riley, convicted of selling misbranded sterilization equipment.
Add to that list Alfred Caronia, a Jazz Pharma sales rep convicted of selling a date rape drug as a diet drink, and you have quite the rogue’s gallery….