While the Justice Department and a private attorney celebrate a $1.4 billion settlement for Eli Lilly’s misbranding of the drug Zyprexa, the ACLU is throwing down a challenge to the secrecy provisions of the law that made it possible.
The federal False Claims Act provides big rewards for whistleblowers who report fraud on the taxpayer. Six [...]
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Bad Karma for Big Pharma – and other qui tam news
January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · First Amendment, Fraud, Justice Department
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Paid by the word?
November 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · Justice Department
Attention has focused recently on the once-obscure Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Justice Department. According to the Washington Post, the operation generates advice that “guides some of the government’s most sensitive and controversial policies.”
Unfortunately, the good stuff is not released to the public, including memos on such hot button topics as interrogation and [...]
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Chuck Rosenberg’s new part-time job
March 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Justice Department, U.S. Attorney
Although no one here in the Old Dominion got the ax, the U.S. Attorney firings story now has a local angle: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales yesterday appointed Chuck Rosenberg, the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, as his interim chief of staff, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Rosenberg, who has past experience in the [...]
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