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Subject: drug company employees wriggle off hook
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8 drug company employees are acquitted

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By KEN MAGUIRE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BOSTON -- Eight pharmaceutical company employees were acquitted Wednesda=
y =

of
charges they offered kickbacks to doctors in the form of consulting fees=
,
dinners, golf trips and other favors to get them to prescribe certain =

drugs.

The case against TAP Pharmaceutical Products had been closely watched by=
=

the
drug industry and the medical profession, which have been criticized in
recent years for giving and receiving freebies. Critics say the practice=

drives up the already high costs of prescription drugs and erodes public=

confidence that doctors are prescribing the right medicines.

The federal jury deliberated for parts of four days following a three-mo=
nth
trial.

Prosecutors argued that the TAP employees lavished golf and ski trips, f=
ree
dinners and other incentives on doctors, along with free drug samples, i=
n
exchange for the physicians' agreement to prescribe TAP's prostate cance=
r
drug Lupron and the heartburn medicine Prevacid.

The government also charged that current and former executives and sales=

managers at Lake Forest, Ill.-based TAP conspired to defraud Medicare an=
d
Medicaid by urging doctors to bill the government for the free drug =

samples.



The defense contended that it is standard practice and not illegal to of=
fer
freebies and that the doctors were not obligated in return to prescribe
TAP's drugs The defense also said the employees never encouraged doctors=
to
bill Medicare and Medicaid for the free samples.

The jury acquitted the TAP employees on those charges as well.

TAP itself was not on trial. The government settled with the company in =
=

2001
for $875 million.




--
'All policymakers must be vigilant to the possibility of research data =

being
manipulated
by corporate bodies and of scientific colleagues being seduced by the
material charms of
industry.
Trust is no defence against an aggressively deceptive corporate sector.'=


Editorial (2000). Resisting smoke and spin. Lancet 355, 1197.
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[marika]

I am sitting in my Jackson hotel room watching HBO because hey that is
what one does in one's hotel room on a late Friday

of course tonite is Def poetry

So who is the host. I don't recognize him. That is not Mos is it.

The new herd is interesting only as I have not seen them before. This
is a half hour show? cos I only saw a half hour maybe there was more.
The averageness is interesting. Not a real stand out hit you in the
head gasp level authority of the word showed up.

I guess they have a whole season to impress me

The commercials are all about Beau. What was it they used to say in
those commercials Beau don't something something?

I have a friend who signs his email often with peace and carats.

This reminds me that I really have always wanted an orange diamond.

this is fer real. I am not making this up.

so keep your eye out for a nice one

aint no time to hate

I wa ssupposed to go to Jackson, Hattiesburg and Tupelo and then Maybe=

NC

I am ending up in Jackson and Hattiesburg for now
Subject: drug company employees wriggle off hook
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8 drug company employees are acquitted
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By KEN MAGUIRE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BOSTON -- Eight pharmaceutical company employees were acquitted =
Wednesday of
charges they offered kickbacks to doctors in the form of consulting fe=

es,

dinners, golf trips and other favors to get them to prescribe certain =

=

drugs.
The case against TAP Pharmaceutical Products had been closely watched =

by =

the
drug industry and the medical profession, which have been criticized i=

n

recent years for giving and receiving freebies. Critics say the practi=

ce

drives up the already high costs of prescription drugs and erodes publ=

ic

confidence that doctors are prescribing the right medicines.
The federal jury deliberated for parts of four days following a =
three-month
trial.
Prosecutors argued that the TAP employees lavished golf and ski trips,=

=

free
dinners and other incentives on doctors, along with free drug samples,=

in

exchange for the physicians' agreement to prescribe TAP's prostate can=

cer

drug Lupron and the heartburn medicine Prevacid.
The government also charged that current and former executives and sal=

es

managers at Lake Forest, Ill.-based TAP conspired to defraud Medicare =

and

Medicaid by urging doctors to bill the government for the free drug =
samples.
The defense contended that it is standard practice and not illegal to =

=

offer
freebies and that the doctors were not obligated in return to prescrib=

e

TAP's drugs The defense also said the employees never encouraged docto=

rs =

to
bill Medicare and Medicaid for the free samples.
The jury acquitted the TAP employees on those charges as well.
TAP itself was not on trial. The government settled with the company i=

n =

2001
for $875 million.
--
'All policymakers must be vigilant to the possibility of research data=

=

being
manipulated
by corporate bodies and of scientific colleagues being seduced by the
material charms of
industry.
Trust is no defence against an aggressively deceptive corporate sector=

.'

Editorial (2000). Resisting smoke and spin. Lancet 355, 1197.
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