US judge upholds 12 year ban on former Purdue execs
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
A federal judge has upheld a decision by the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services to censure three former Purdue Frederick Co executives and debar them from working at companies that do business with Medicare/Medicaid or other federal programmes for 12 years.
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