Janssen Products LP must pay over $1.6 billion in a False Claims Act suit for improperly billing the US government for HIV drugs, a New Jersey federal district court said.
The government is to receive $360 million in trebled damages and $1.28 billion in penalties, Judge Zahid N. Quraishi of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said in a March 28 order. The penalties consist of $8,000 for each of the 159,574 false claims a jury found that Janssen caused to be submitted to the government, the final judgment said.
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