TAKEOVER OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE BY OUR GOVERNMENT - UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

U.S. Effort to Remove Drug CEO Jolts Firms

• Submitted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B on April 26, 2011 at Patriot Action Network 

• APRIL 26, 2011

By ALICIA MUNDY

A government attempt to oust a longtime drug-company chief executive over his company's marketing violations is raising alarms in that industry and beyond about a potential expansion of federal involvement in the business world.
The Department of Health and Human Services this month notified Howard Solomon of Forest Laboratories Inc. that it intends to exclude him from doing business with the federal government. This, in turn, could prevent Forest from selling its drugs to Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Administration. If the government implements its ban, Forest would have to dump Mr. Solomon, now 83 years old, in order to protect its corporate revenue. No drug company, large or small, can afford to lose out on sales to the federal government, a major customer.

Bloomberg

Forest Labs CEO Howard Solomon

The campaign against drug-company CEOs is part of a larger Obama administration effort to pursue individual executives blamed for wrongdoing rather than simply punishing companies. The government has tried to prosecute Wall Street executives in connection with the 2008 financial crisis, but with limited success.


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