Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 May 2020
A drug company wagers the U.S. won’t dare charge it with crimes
15 May 2020 - Teva, the world’s largest maker of generic drugs, recently pulled out of settlement talks with the Justice Department.
In the coming days, the Justice Department will make an important decision: whether to file criminal charges against one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies for allegedly colluding with rivals to inflate the prices of widely used drugs.
The company, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, is betting that in the middle of a deadly pandemic, the Trump administration won’t dare to come down hard on the largest supplier of generic drugs in the United States.
