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A Timeline of Big Pharma Settlements

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ChartsErica Teichert of FiercePharma.com crafted a very handy outline of the biggest Big Pharma offenders of recent years. Sometimes there's strength in numbers. Sometimes pharma companies bend the rules. And increasingly, they're getting caught. After Novartis' recent $422.5 million settlement with …

Exclusive: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can't Speak Afghan Languages

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army silhouettesBy Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross, and Joseph Rhee More than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams but were sent onto the battlefield anyway, according to a former employee of the company that holds contracts worth up to $1.4…

Nelnet trial to start next week

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GavelOMAHA - The amounts of money on the line are staggering.If Lincoln-based student lender Nelnet fails to fend off a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the federal treasury, it could be on the hook for almost $1 billion.And for a former Nebraskan who blew the whistle on questionable federal subsidies c…

Rick Scott health care company accused of overbilling Medicare

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Two weeks before Florida’s primary, new allegations of improper Medicare billing by Solantic, a health care company co-founded by Rick Scott, have surfaced, in addition to charges made by former Solantic doctors that their names and licenses were used without their consent. Within hours of being pre…