Monday, May 24, 2010

Women get $3M each for unveiling J&J's drug firm's shady sales practices | Detroit Free Press

Ordered by their employer, two metro Detroit women spent years wooing Michigan doctors with lavish dinners, tickets and trips to prescribe an epilepsy drug for problems it wasn't approved to treat.

Angela Maher, 39, of Walled Lake and Anastasia Savka-Klovski, 52 (pic), of Chelsea finally blew the whistle to the U.S. Department of Justice. On Friday, they walked away with $3 million each, part of an $81-million settlement against a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The pair also will receive a yet-undetermined amount from state Medicaid plans.

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