Showing posts with label fine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fine. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
All the way to the top of Wal-mart, apparently
I say again, if they broke both Mexican laws--and it looks as though they did--and they broke American laws--and that's been shown already, in the New York Times article--then they need to be charged and prosecuted in both countries. Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/busted-wal-mart-caught-massive-bribery-scandal-goes-150100011.html
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Another reason the Mayor's "Schools First" program hasn't got a chance
From The Kansas City Star this morning :
KC’s sewer upgrade approved
Under the agreement, Kansas City will pay a federal civil penalty of $600,000 for violating state and federal clean-water laws.
Kansas City also will spend $1.6 million on a project to implement sewer connections for income-eligible residential property owners who elect to close their septic tanks and connect to the public sewer.
Rates will still rise quickly if a proposed agreement between the city and the Environmental Protection Agency is finalized, but not as precipitously as if the city had been forced to complete the project in 15 years.
Good luck getting even one more tax passed after the first 15% rate in sewer taxes rises, let alone two, as the Mayor wants for his "Schools First" program, once this begins.
Advice to "the Funk" and the Squirt: forget "Schools First". Forget it now. Don't ever bring it up again, for your sake. Hope you can let it die a quiet death. (It won't but, hey, you can hope it, anyway).
Oh, and, hey, while we're at it, thanks for not doing anything about this when you first got in office so we could avoid that fine. It's another $600,000.00 you cost us.
Great leadership there, as we've pointed out before.
KC’s sewer upgrade approved
Under the agreement, Kansas City will pay a federal civil penalty of $600,000 for violating state and federal clean-water laws.
Kansas City also will spend $1.6 million on a project to implement sewer connections for income-eligible residential property owners who elect to close their septic tanks and connect to the public sewer.
Rates will still rise quickly if a proposed agreement between the city and the Environmental Protection Agency is finalized, but not as precipitously as if the city had been forced to complete the project in 15 years.
Good luck getting even one more tax passed after the first 15% rate in sewer taxes rises, let alone two, as the Mayor wants for his "Schools First" program, once this begins.
Advice to "the Funk" and the Squirt: forget "Schools First". Forget it now. Don't ever bring it up again, for your sake. Hope you can let it die a quiet death. (It won't but, hey, you can hope it, anyway).
Oh, and, hey, while we're at it, thanks for not doing anything about this when you first got in office so we could avoid that fine. It's another $600,000.00 you cost us.
Great leadership there, as we've pointed out before.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
We agree to pay a half-billion dollar fine but no, we deny any wrongdoing
Did you see this?
The federal government on Tuesday reached a $520 million settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca, resolving allegations of illegal marketing of the company's antipsychotic drug Seroquel.
At a news conference, Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made the case a centerpiece of the federal government's crackdown on health care fraud.
AstraZeneca allegedly marketed Seroquel for off-label uses — those not approved by federal drug regulators — including insomnia and psychiatric conditions other than schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
U.S. Attorney Michael Levy of Philadelphia, where the settlement was filed, said that the company had "turned patients into guinea pigs in an unsupervised drug test."
AstraZeneca, which has its U.S. headquarters in Wilmington, Del., faces more than 25,000 product liability lawsuits over Seroquel, with most alleging that the drug caused diabetes. Seroquel has been on the market since 1997.
The government said AstraZeneca paid kickbacks to doctors recruited to serve as authors of articles by Astra Zeneca and the company's agents about the unapproved uses of Seroquel.
The company also made payments to doctors to travel to resort locations to advise AstraZeneca about marketing messages for unapproved uses of the drug, the government stated.
AstraZeneca denied the allegations leveled by the government in the civil case settled Tuesday, saying it wanted to avoid the delay, uncertainty and expense of a protracted legal battle.
Right.
You, AstraZeneca, just paid more than a HALF BILLION DOLLARS to the Federal Government but you "deny any allegations..."
Right.
And Goldman Sachs is an honest, forthright company that didn't swindle the America people.
Got it.
Link to original story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_bi_ge/us_doj_astrazeneca
The federal government on Tuesday reached a $520 million settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca, resolving allegations of illegal marketing of the company's antipsychotic drug Seroquel.
At a news conference, Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made the case a centerpiece of the federal government's crackdown on health care fraud.
AstraZeneca allegedly marketed Seroquel for off-label uses — those not approved by federal drug regulators — including insomnia and psychiatric conditions other than schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
U.S. Attorney Michael Levy of Philadelphia, where the settlement was filed, said that the company had "turned patients into guinea pigs in an unsupervised drug test."
AstraZeneca, which has its U.S. headquarters in Wilmington, Del., faces more than 25,000 product liability lawsuits over Seroquel, with most alleging that the drug caused diabetes. Seroquel has been on the market since 1997.
The government said AstraZeneca paid kickbacks to doctors recruited to serve as authors of articles by Astra Zeneca and the company's agents about the unapproved uses of Seroquel.
The company also made payments to doctors to travel to resort locations to advise AstraZeneca about marketing messages for unapproved uses of the drug, the government stated.
AstraZeneca denied the allegations leveled by the government in the civil case settled Tuesday, saying it wanted to avoid the delay, uncertainty and expense of a protracted legal battle.
Right.
You, AstraZeneca, just paid more than a HALF BILLION DOLLARS to the Federal Government but you "deny any allegations..."
Right.
And Goldman Sachs is an honest, forthright company that didn't swindle the America people.
Got it.
Link to original story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_bi_ge/us_doj_astrazeneca
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