- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Adrianne Appel2024-07-11T14:40:00
Rite Aid agreed to pay $7.5 million and allow the Department of Justice (DOJ) to access nearly $402 million from the company’s forthcoming bankruptcy case to settle allegations it helped fuel the nation’s opioid epidemic.
The DOJ case, brought on behalf of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Defense Health Agency, is just one of many local, state, and federal suits against pharmacies, opioid manufacturers, and others alleged to have spurred opioid addiction nationwide.
The case resolves claims brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by three former Rite Aid pharmacy employees, Andrew White, Mark Rosenberg, and Ann Wegelin, the DOJ announced Wednesday in a press release. They will receive 17 percent of the DOJ’s recovery.
2024-12-16T15:03:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
McKinsey & Co. will pay $650 million in penalties to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to settle charges that it advised Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” the sale of Oxycontin in the middle of the U.S. opioid crisis.
2023-03-14T20:53:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The Department of Justice announced its intervention in a lawsuit alleging retail pharmacy chain Rite Aid filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for medically unnecessary oxycodone and other opioids in violation of multiple federal laws.
2022-11-15T18:29:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Walmart announced it agreed to a $3.1 billion nationwide settlement designed to resolve all the potential state lawsuits it faces for its alleged role in fueling the opioid epidemic.
2025-07-02T18:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Emerging enforcement priorities of the U.S. Department of Justice’s health care fraud division align with the Trump administration’s emphasis on prosecuting transnational criminal organizations and ending opioid trafficking.
2025-07-01T23:26:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has yet to keep up the level of enforcement it had under previous chair Lina Khan. The agency, however, returned to antitrust action in the case of fuel stations, just in time for the July 4th holiday.
2025-06-25T16:29:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In May, three commissioners for the Consumer Product Safety Commission were abruptly fired by President Donald Trump and sued for their jobs shortly after. A federal judge has ruled that the commissioners should be reinstated, although it’s unclear whether that ruling may itself be reversed.
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