US ex rel DeMott v. Pfizer
N/AOUTCOME: Settlement of $ 2.3 billion.
In the fall of 2009, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer paid the United States and the States to reach a $ 2.3 billion False Claims Act off-label marketing and kickback settlement with the United States ... and 49 of the 50 states. Two Prizer wholly-owned subsidiaries pled guilty in federal court in Boston to criminal conduct in connection with marketing prescription drugs to your doctor and mine. Thus, Attorneys General all over the United States recouped millions of taxpayer dollars in this single Pfizer settlement. A dozen whistleblowers, virtually all former employees whom Pfizer fired, will receive a respectable share of the settlement, dividing up over $ 90 million in “relator’s share” rewards. Columbus, Ohio resident Glenn DeMott, a former Pfizer drug sales representative, is one of those brave whistleblowers who helped recover ill-gotten Medicare, Medicaid, and other government funds spent on Pfizer drugs. But for healthcare whistleblowers , we would all be spending even more for health care and health insurance than we already pay.
