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Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs · Government · 2 Sep 2009 · United States

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Reviewed. Everything in it that belongs in the tables has been taken.

What the document holds

DOJ press release (2 Sep 2009), Pfizer $2.3 billion: criminal fine $1.195 billion and forfeiture $105 million ($1.3 billion criminal); $1 billion civil FCA settlement (federal $668,514,830, state Medicaid $331,485,170) over Bextra, Geodon, Zyvox, Lyrica; qui tam suits in D. Mass., E.D. Pa., E.D. Ky.; six whistleblowers receive more than $102 million; corporate integrity agreement; officials' quotes (USPS 'more than $1 billion' workers' compensation, not programme). Already in the data: 1 case and 1 event. Nothing added. Same release as usa-doj-pr-pfizer-2009 (another capture); both already have a case row for the same settlement.

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What it covers Pfizer $2.3 billion; six whistleblowers' payments

Notes Copy taken from the Wayback Machine raw capture (id_) because justice.gov now serves a bot-check page to scripts; the capture is the original DOJ page.

Source id usa-doj-pfizer-pr-2009 · accessed 3 Oct 2026