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Company Allegedly Sold Products Manufactured in Unsanitary Conditions at Michigan and Arizona Plants and Engaged in Alleged Cover-Up
BALTIMORE, MD – Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today joined 39 other states and the federal government to reach an agreement with Abbott Laboratories (Abbott) to settle allegations that the company defrauded government health programs by selling them infant formula and nutritional therapy products manufactured in plants that failed to meet state and federal safety standards for preventing contamination. Abbott, an Illinois-based healthcare company, will pay about $348.7 million to the United States to resolve False Claims Act allegations and another $35.5 million to the states for claims related to Medicaid programs.
Maryland was one of five states to directly intervene in…
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