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Company: Walgreens
Current Parent Company:
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:
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Penalty: $600,000
Year: 2012
Date: April 20, 2012
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Violation Description: Walgreens agreed to pay approximately $600,00 to settle multistate litigation alleging it offered illegal inducements to beneficiaries of government health care programs to transfer their prescriptions to its pharmacies. This was part of a larger $7.9 million settlement involving the federal government; see the Violation Tracker entry at
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Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-pharmacies
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the
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