The $3 billion fine also will be the largest penalty ever paid by a drug company, deputy attorney general James M. Cole said. The corporation also agreed to be monitored by government officials for five years to attempt to ensure the company's compliance, Cole said.
"Let me be clear, we will not tolerate health care fraud,'' Cole told a news conference at the Justice department. He would not say whether any company executives were under investigation. The company's guilty plea and sentence have to be approved by a federal court in Massachusetts.
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