Johnson and Johnson to pay South Carolina 327 million over Risperdal - Is AstraZeneca Seroquel Next?

Johnson and Johnson to pay South Carolina 327 million over Risperdal Violations - Is AstraZeneca's Seroquel next to Face substantial penalties?

From Bloomberg News:
bloomberg.com/newsj&j-ordered-to-pay-327-million-on-deceptive-marketing-claims

A Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) unit was ordered by a South Carolina judge to pay more than $327 million in penalties for deceptively marketing the antipsychotic drug Risperdal as safer and better than competing medicines.
J&J’s Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit repeatedly violated the state’s consumer-protection laws by sending a 2003 letter to doctors touting Risperdal as superior to rival drugs and including deceptive information in the product’s warning label, Judge Roger Couch in Spartanburg, South Carolina, concluded.
The drugmaker’s executives “allowed the profit-at-all- costs mentality to cloud” their judgment in connection with the drug’s marketing campaign and its labeling, Couch said in his 17-page ruling.

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South Carolina has been one of the few states that has not come to a cover up settlement agreement with AstraZeneca over their illegal business practices. Could this be the straw that finally breaks this Camel AstraZeneca's sleazy legal hard ball back. It's been long over due that AstraZeneca be found guilty of their unconscionable illegal practices and be held accountable as the criminal corporation they are.

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