Drugs giant Bristol-Meyers Squibb and a former subsidiary have been forced to pay more than half a billion dollars to settle settle federal and state investigations for promoting an anti-psychotic drug, Ablify, for uses that were not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and providing illegal inducements to doctors and other health care providers.
Months into the federal probe of options backdating at Apple and the chances of a criminal case against Jobs are fading fast. Jobs approved the backdating but the investigation has found no evidence that he directed the backdating of his own grant or covered it up. That means there's no official evidence of misconduct.
Hewlett=Packard’s problems look like they are about get worse. The question coming out of the hearings into Hewlett-Packard's pretexting scandal is to what extent executives were working together to subvert the law. If that's the case, then we could be looking at conspiracy charges.
