Comments on: Purdue General Counsel Fights For His Career

By: 2Big2Jail

2Big2Jail — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:19:19 +0000

Friends,

Just a word to say why it would be a disaster for all of us for me to serve time. Trust me, I am only concerned with doing the right thing for all of us.

First, the research and development on which my legal genius depends would grind to a halt. That means that all the life-saving medicines on which you rely would no longer be available to you. All of you would experience slow, agonizing deaths. The plague would spread around the world. Not just people. Also animals. Then plants. Almost certainly, the rocks would eventually crumble as well. And the dust would blow away.

So that’s why jailing me is a really bad idea.

Happy holidays.

By: terry

terry — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:41:13 +0000

The gall. No jail time, and they still want to argue?

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:34:02 +0000

In my opinion it is about time individuals are punished in big pharma. Look at all the pharma settlements in the past 5 years and it is so easy to tell this is simply the cost of doing business. You make $10billion and pay the government a small percentage back. But, hey when someone with a name gets his hand whacked for having his hand in the til they scream to high heaven claiming they didn’t know and how unfair life is and the big bad government is overstepping. There should have been jail time for these three and few sales reps should have been taken down as well.

By: pharmavet

pharmavet — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:02:09 +0000

In order to be permanently debarred by HHS, an investigator or drug company executive must have committed a felony. This is setting the bar way too high in my opinion. This was not a bad policy in the 1990’s, when HHS was actively debarring bad actors. However, this activity has slowed to a tricke in the past decade. As clinical researchers we used to be able to rely on the debarrment “black list” to exclusde potential clinical investigators. These days, that list is insufficient and we have to use additional investigatory tools. A cagey investigator can conceal a lot until they are caught. My most embarrassing experience was doing a prestudy visit to Drs. Borison and Diamond while they were committing their frauds, and actually giving them the thumbs up.

By: shytown

shytown — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:01:46 +0000

The post above puts a face on what can happen when Big Pharma puts profits over people.

I remember those sales reps a while back. When my state stopped the triplicate forms that were required for SCHEDULE II Drugs, I remember the Purdue reps dancing in the offices.
You would have thought it was Christmas.

If you don’t punish these criminals, you tell the rest, Hey, it’s ok, if you get caught, at most you will have to pay a small percentage (and I mean small percentage) of the huge amounts that you reaped from the illegal activity.

I applaud this lady’s efforts, and the efforts of the AG to make sure these criminals get what they deserve.

By: Marianne Skolek

Marianne Skolek — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:19 +0000

http://salem-news.com/articles/december202009/udell_ms.php