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Mar. 12, 2011
Biotech Executives Face Tougher Penalties
Federal prosecutors pursuing biotechnology executives are getting a bigger stick to beat back health care fraud in the form of higher criminal penalties in sentencing guidelines mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.




Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - Federal prosecutors charging biotechnology executives for wrongdoing are getting a bigger stick to beat back health care fraud in the form of higher criminal penalties.
Last year's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandated new sentencing guidelines for health care fraud, raising the stakes just as the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are stepp...
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