kickbacks

Medtronic Inc., the world's largest maker of medical devices, has agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to implant its pacemakers and defibrillators, the U.S.

Justice Department said Monday.

A subsidiary of CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims and paid kickbacks relating to a federal contract to manage mixed radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear site in south-central Washington state.

Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $46 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged kickbacks to win government work.

U.S. investigators have widened their probe of alleged kickbacks paid to Russian authorities by employees of a Hewlett-Packard Co. subsidiary in Germany.

On Friday, federal authorities arrested a midlevel Apple global supply manager, Paul Shin Devine, for accepting kickbacks worth over $1 million from half a dozen unnamed Asian suppliers.

News is breaking today that the United States government has slapped a suit against Johnson & Johnson and two of its subsidiaries for allegedly paying kickbacks to nursing homes in an effort to boost sales for a new antipsychotic drug.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz calls the actions of J&J particularly "nefarious".

A New Jersey pharmaceuticals firm will pay nearly $25 million in criminal and civil fines after pleading guilty to federal charges that it made illegal payments to encourage doctors to prescribe a blood pressure drug.

A former corporate tax accountant at Eastman Kodak Co. has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for accepting kickbacks in a $14 million property assessment conspiracy.

Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk has agreed to pay a $9 million fine for giving kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government through the United Nations oil-for-food program.

Amid a widening investigation into possible kickbacks involving New York’s pension fund, the state’s comptroller has announced a ban on placement agents being involved in the fund’s investments.