By Gusty Thursday, 4 August 2016 anechoic effect corporate integrity agreement crime fraud health care corruption impunity kickbacks legal settlements Tenet Good Health and A Tenet of Impunity - Tenet Settles Kickback Allegations for $514 Million, No Individual Suffers Any Negative Consequences. Elvonda Tramp, tramp, tramp. The march of legal settlements continues. The latest entry is a corporation that has had a 20 plus year history of l...
By Gusty Thursday, 21 July 2016 Abilify Bristol-Myers-Squibb crime impunity kickbacks legal settlements logical fallacies Good Health and Law and Order? - Bristol-Myers-Squibb Settles Case Alleging Fraud and Kickbacks, No Admissions of Guilt, No Individuals Charged. Elvonda Introduction Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the US presidency last week announced he is the "law and order" candidate, ac...
By Gusty Tuesday, 24 November 2015 Allergan crime deception fraud impunity kickbacks legal settlements obstruction of justice Pfizer RICO Good Health and Their Cheating Hearts - Latest Allergan Settlement Is a Reminder of Merger Participants' Sketchy Pasts. Elvonda A Huge, but Sketchy Merger The announced merger and "tax inversion" of Pfizer and Allergan would be one of the largest corporate ...
By Gusty Thursday, 5 November 2015 corporate integrity agreement deception Express Scripts impunity kickbacks legal settlements Novartis Switzerland what they really think of us Good Health and What They Really Think of Us (Swiss Version) - Novartis CEO Would Not Commit to Changing Company Behavior After Latest of Multiple Legal Settlements. Elvonda The huge corporations which now dominate global health care are creating amazing records of repeated ethical misadventures. We last discuss...
By Gusty Thursday, 20 August 2015 Amgen bribery deception kickbacks legal settlements marketing Good Health and Once More with Feeling - Amgen Again Settles Allegations of Misbranding, But Why Bother? . Elvonda The Latest Settlement Biotechnology giant Amgen has just reached another settlement of allegations that it unfairly, deceptively or misleadi...
By Gusty Wednesday, 8 April 2015 anechoic effect deception fraud impunity kickbacks legal settlements Mark Leavitt Medtronic Victor Dzau Good Health and Three More Settlements by Medtronic of Allegations of Deceptive Behavior, but No Umpire Says "You're Out". Elvonda Medtronic, the giant, previously US based device maker settled three lawsuits, all alleging deceptive practices, over three months in early ...
By Gusty Friday, 3 April 2015 boards of trustees conflicts of interest Cooper Hospital/ UMC crime kickbacks legal settlements revolving doors Good Health and The Troubles at Cooper Continue, Lately Gruesomely, But Will Its Leadership and Governance Change This Time? - Part II: the History since 2005. Elvonda In our most recent post , we noted the latest tragic, and gruesome development at Cooper Health System, the largest hospital system in south...