GSK plc,is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with global headquarters in London. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham,GSK is the tenth largest pharmaceutical company and #294 on the 2022 Fortune Global 500,ranked behind other pharmaceutical companies China Resources,Sinopharm,Johnson &Johnson,Pfizer,Roche,AbbVie,Novartis,Bayer,and Merck Sharp &Dohme.
Xavier Becerra is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since March 2021. Becerra previously served as the Attorney General of California from January 2017 until March 2021. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives,representing Downtown Los Angeles in Congress from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,Becerra was Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus from 2013 to 2017.
John William Suthers is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Colorado Springs,Colorado,the Attorney General of Colorado,U.S. Attorney for Colorado,executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections,and Fourth Judicial District Attorney. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP,also known as Hale &Dorr and WilmerHale,is an international law firm with offices in the United States,Europe and Asia. It is co-headquartered in Washington,D.C.,and Boston. It was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based,firm Wilmer Cutler &Pickering,and employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Thomas Lee Strickland is an American lawyer who was formerly chief of staff to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks in the Interior Department. Strickland served as United States Attorney for Colorado and was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate for Colorado in 1996 and 2002. He joined WilmerHale as a partner in September,2011.
Digital Entertainment Network was a multimedia dot-com company founded in the late-1990s by Marc Collins-Rector and his partner,Chad Shackley. Rector and Shackley had sold their ISP,Concentric Network,and used the proceeds of that sale,along with additional investor funding,to launch DEN. In February 1999,Jim Ritts resigned as commissioner of the LPGA to become chairman of DEN.
Roth MKM,formerly Roth Capital Partners,LLC,is a small privately held investment banking company with headquarters in Newport Beach,California and a global trading floor in Stamford,Connecticut. It specialises in providing services to small cap publicly listed companies.
David William Ogden,known professionally as David W. Ogden is an American lawyer who served as the deputy attorney general of the United States. An American lawyer,Ogden was also a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Defense during the administration of President Bill Clinton. He is a nationally recognized litigator and counselor in the Washington,DC.,office of the law firm WilmerHale,LLP.
Julie A. Su is an American attorney and government official who has served as United States deputy secretary of labor since 2021. Before assuming that post,she was the California Labor Secretary,serving under Governor Gavin Newsom from 2019 to 2021,and was the California Labor Commissioner,overseeing California's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE),under Governor Jerry Brown from 2011 to 2018.
Pharmaceutical fraud involves activities that result in false claims to insurers or programs such as Medicare in the United States or equivalent state programs for financial gain to a pharmaceutical company. There are several different schemes used to defraud the health care system which are particular to the pharmaceutical industry. These include:Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Violations,Off Label Marketing,Best Price Fraud,CME Fraud,Medicaid Price Reporting,and Manufactured Compound Drugs. Examples of fraud cases include the GlaxoSmithKline $3 billion settlement,Pfizer $2.3 billion settlement,and Merck $650 million settlement. Damages from fraud can be recovered by use of the False Claims Act,most commonly under the qui tam provisions which rewards an individual for being a "whistleblower",or relator (law).
United States v. GlaxoSmithKline was a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Robert J. Merena was one of the first who filed claims against SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories on November 12,1993. The complaints alleged that GlaxoSmithKline,which operated a system of clinical laboratories,adopted myriad complicated procedures for the purpose of defrauding state and federal healthcare programs,in particular Medicare and Medicaid. The U.S. Justice Department publicly praised Robert Merena for his "cooperation and support" in helping the government collect the largest settlement ever involving a whistle-blower lawsuit. The SmithKline settlement is considered to be one of the largest whistleblower assisted recoveries in the history of the United States.
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas is a Cuban-American lawyer and politician who has been serving as the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security since February 2,2021. During the Obama administration,he also served in the Department of Homeland Security,first as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (2009–2013),and then as deputy secretary of DHS (2013–2016).
Regina Marie Rodriguez is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
A special election was held on June 6,2017,to elect the member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 34th congressional district. A special open primary election was held on April 4,2017.
Cleo Parker Robinson is an American dancer and choreographer. She is most known for being the founder,namesake and executive creative director of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1989,and named to the National Council on the Arts by President Bill Clinton in 1999. In 2005 she also received a Kennedy Center Medal of Honor during the Center's "Masters of African American Choreographers" series.
Monica Rodriguez is an American politician in California. She currently serves as a Los Angeles City Council member,and represents the 7th district. The district is located in the San Fernando Valley,and includes the neighborhoods of Pacoima,Sunland-Tujunga,Sylmar,Shadow Hills,Sun Valley,Lake View Terrace,and Mission Hills. Rodriguez was sworn in on July 1,2017.
Antonia Hernández is an attorney,activist,and philanthropist. She currently serves as president and CEO of the California Community Foundation. Hernández worked as a prosecutor in Madrigal v. Quilligan (1975),a class-action lawsuit filed by ten women of Mexican descent who were involuntarily sterilized at the Los Angeles County Hospital. She is also the first latin woman to serve as staff counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1979 to 1980. In addition,Hernández served on the campaign team for Senator Ted Kennedy in his 1980 presidential campaign. She served as president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) from 1985 to 2004.
Charles Addison Gessler was an American criminal defense attorney who specialized in death penalty litigation. Gessler worked as a deputy public defender for the Los Angeles County Public Defender's office for thirty-two years. Gessler handled several high-profile cases,including representing Lyle Menéndez,G. Gordon Liddy and Vaughn Greenwood.
