The Swiss drug manufacturer Novartis has been accused by the U.S. government of a kickback scheme involving paying doctors millions in kickbacks to promote and prescribe their drugs.The drugs involved in this case including Lotrel and Valturna, which treat hypertension, as well as Starlix for diabetes. The kickbacks to the docs also included what...

New information, some from former Russian spies in America who are now cooperating with us, reveals an increasing and pervasive use of social media by Russian members of an elite intelligence unit in Russia, to influence broad groups of U.S. citizens in significant ways. It is considered a new and insidious kind of warfare....

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (Fresenius), provider of medical products and services, has agreed to pay $231 million to end investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in connection with Fresenius's participation in various...

Duke University has agreed to pay $112.5 million to settle claims that it knowingly included fake data in applications for federal grants that brought more than $200 million into that school and other nearby universities. The suit, brought by a former employee, alleged that the university was aware that a University biologist included fraudulent...

Franklin Resources will pay $13,850,000 and make other provisions to settle a lawsuit alleging that defendants breached their Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciary duties by causing Franklin Templeton's 401(k) plan to invest in funds offered and managed by Franklin Templeton when better-performing and lower-cost funds were available....

Contractors Areva and Chicago Bridge and Iron gave kickbacks in the form of football tickets, hunting rifles, cellphones and NASCAR race tickets to get work on a factory at the Savannah River nuclear storage facility says a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Government. The cost of those kickbacks was...