The penalties announced Monday involve fines and forfeiture
to the federal government and several states. The settlement involves the
schizophrenia drugs Risperdal and Invega, and the heart failure drug Natrecor,
the company and Attorney General Eric Holder said.
Johnson & Johnson and two subsidiaries "lined their
pockets at the expense of American taxpayers, patients and the private
insurance industry," Holder said.
The penalty amounts to one of the country's largest health
care-related settlements, the Justice Department said. Read more
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