Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed at increasing opioid use

Re:Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed a... by onetimemanytime on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:24PM (#22166156)

>>"Practice Fusion’s conduct is abhorrent. During the height of the opioid crisis, the company took a million-dollar kickback to allow an opioid company to inject itself in the sacred doctor-patient relationship so that it could peddle even more of its highly addictive and dangerous opioids,” Christina Nolan, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, said in a statement.

So where is jail time for the entire decision-making team?

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Re:Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed a... by tempsy on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:26PM (#22166159)

I can’t help but laugh at the cofounder’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcdouglass

Very first line: I dig: socially responsible company-building

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Re:Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed a... by shadow-banned on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:38PM (#22166221)

WOW. I almost sent him a DM... it won't accomplish anything.

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Re:Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed a... by jhhh on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:52PM (#22166290)

Likely nothing will happen to them. It's a combination of several factors:

Courts removed DOJ's legal tools they used to go after individuals (Skilling).

DOJ started allowing companies to hire law firms to investigate themselves for wrongdoing because it was easier than doing an investigation. Also, it created a revolving door between the white collar legal community.

Culture change at DOJ after a pushback from said white collar legal community after flattening Arthur Anderson hilariously punctuated by the hiring in Obama's first term of Denis McInerney as the DOJ Chief of Fraud after he represented Arthur Anderson.

Several high profile losses: Skilling (again), Bear Sterns execs, AIG execs.

Everyone should just read Chickenshit Club.

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