Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical LLC, a division of Johnson & Johnson, has plead guilty to charges that it illegally promoted off-label uses for the epilepsy drug, Topamax, and agreed to pay a $6.1 million fine. The company admitted it paid doctors thousands of dollars to travel with salespersons to psychiatrist offices, to promote Topamax for uses...

Pharmacists are particularly well suited to discover Medicaid fraud relating to the medicines they dispense. A number of successful False Claims actions have been taken by pharmacists which have resulted in millions of dollars in recovered taxpayer dollars and a percentage of the recovery to the pharmacists. One pharmacist became a whistleblower after discovering drug...

James Wetta is a multi-millionaire from his activities as a whistleblower of the pharma industry--not once by twice and his recent revelations concerning AstraZeneca will result in $45 million to him. The former AstraZeneca sales rep filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company in 2004 and Astra revealed last week that it would pay$520...