Piling on? No sir! Janssen\/J&J wants to settle all these suits for $1 B total. They’re making that in yearly profit even out of patent. The TMAP story and its derivatives in other States were an affront to our form of government and the governed – racketeering using paid physicians who were employed by the government they were bilko-ing. They ought to go to prison for fraud and the financial penalty really should fit the crime [putting Janssen out of business and jailing the executives\/physicians would be just fine with me]. They earned it fair and square. If they settle, they need to settle for their whole profit at the least – the kind of the thing that would be felt by every J&J shareholder and everyone involved in concocting this macabre scheme. Shameful corporate behavior. And Janssen wasn’t the only pharmaceutical company involved [AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, etc.], just the leader of the pack…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Massachusetts Sues J&J Over Risperdal Marketing Practices Bloomberg By Don Jeffrey Aug 1, 2011 Massachusetts’s attorney general sued Johnson & Johnson’s Ortho-McNeil-Janssen unit for improper marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. The company marketed the drug as a treatment for dementia in the elderly and a way to ease various ailments of younger people when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11627,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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