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Drug Companies Accused of Bribing Doctors

  • April 14, 2004

Eleven sales executives from TAP Pharmaceutical Products are going on trial, accused of paying kickbacks to doctors and hospitals to get them to buy the company's medications. The company, based in Lake Forest, Ill., has already paid $875 million to settle charges that it inflated prices on its prostate cancer drug Lupron, and that the company bribed doctors to prescribe it. According to the indictment, the drug company executives gave doctors ski trips to Aspen, Colo., and golf outings to...