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1849-Today Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
1876-Today Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY)
2004 In the 2004 case, Pfizer agreed to pay $430 million to federal and state governments and pleaded guilty to criminal charges of illegally marketing epilepsy drug Neurontin for migraine headaches, pain and bipolar disorder.
2009 Reuters - Pfizer to pay $2.3 billion, agrees to criminal plea
2009 The settlement is the largest to date for improper marketing of prescription drugs, topping the $1.42 billion Eli Lilly and Co agreed to pay earlier this year for off-label sales of its Zyprexa schizophrenia drug.
Did the punishment fit the crime? Pfizer says yes. It paid nearly $1.2 billion in a criminal fine for Bextra, the largest fine the federal government has ever collected.
It paid a billion dollars more to settle a batch of civil suits -- although it denied wrongdoing -- on allegations that it illegally promoted 12 other drugs. In all, Pfizer lost the equivalent of three months' profit.
Linezolid (Zyvox, Zyvoxid)
Olanzapine (Zyprexa)
Plea Deals
Pregabalin (Lyrica)
Valdecoxib (Bextra)
Ziprasidone (Geodon)