US DoJ OxyContin probe "fell short" Public Citizen claims

5 August 2007

The US Department of Justice's criminal probe into drugmaker Purdue Frederick Corp "fell short" in three key areas, according to the Public Citizen, an antibusiness consumer group, in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. As a result, the group alleges in a statement that the company's officials were allowed "to get off the hook for their misdeeds" and the DoJ failed "to force the company to disgorge a much larger amount of its profits."

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