WASHINGTON AP – Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged a former GlaxoSmithKline lawyer with obstructing justice and making false statements in an effort to conceal illegal promotion of a company drug.
The Department of Justice alleges that in 2002, Lauren Stevens of Durham, N.C., signed several letters to the Food and Drug Administration denying that her company had promoted its drug for unapproved uses. But Stevens knew that the company had paid numerous physicians to give talks touting unapproved uses of the drug, according to the indictment filed Monday in the U.S. District Court of Maryland.
