![]() ![]() The race is all about them, not the deepening crisis of affordability that years after the end of the recession has so many New Jersey families still scrambling to cover the basics. Neither Bob believes their well documented paper trail is a problem. For Celgene, which reportedly charges $18,546 for 28 pills of a cancer drug, it was the most cost effective way to resolve the matter which started as a pesky whistleblower case. “The allegations included the use of false and misleading statements about the drugs, and paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe the drugs.” In 2017 his company paid $280 million to the Department of Justice, 28 states and the District of Columbia to resolve allegations “that Celgene promoted two cancer drugs - Thalomid and Revlimid - for uses that were not approved by the FDA and not covered by federal health care programs,” according to a DOJ press release. ![]() Over the next 19 years he turned it into an $80 billion behemoth. In 1999 Bob Hugin, a former director at JPMorgan Chase & Co., joined Celgene Corporation, a New Jersey pharmaceutical company, as its chief financial officer. He marketed it as an exoneration and took prosecutors to task for daring to bring the case. Senator Menendez was criminally indicted but in 2017 the jury deadlocked and the Department of Justice opted not to retry him. Senate colleagues because he “violated Senate Rules and related statutes, and reflected discredit upon the Senate.” His transgressions included not disclosing lavish gifts he got from a Florida ophthalmologist that the Senator did big favors for including trying to extricate the eye doctor from federal scrutiny that culminated in the doctor being criminally convicted for ripping off Medicare for tens of millions of dollars. With Senator Bob Menendez we have an incumbent “severely admonished” by his U.S. ![]() What we have are two men spending a fortune tearing down the other guy. Senate millions of dollars have been spent by both camps to dirty up the other Bob in the race. ![]()
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