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Biogen has disclosed in a Wednesday Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it has been served a subpoena by the U.S. Department of Justice, which is seeking more information regarding the company’s overseas operations.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it has seized over $1.4 billion in COVID-19 relief funds that criminals had stolen, and charged over 3,000 defendants with crimes in federal districts across the country.

Teva Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced that it reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice over its drug price-fixing case involving generic drugs.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday preserved the Justice Department’s power to unilaterally dismiss lawsuits filed under a law that lets whistleblowers sue businesses on behalf of the government to recover taxpayer money paid to companies based on false claims in exchange for a portion of any recovery.

The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available in the United States for now but with significant restrictions, including a requirement for in-person doctor visits to obtain the drug, a federal appeals court ruled late on Wednesday.

Abortion opponents on Tuesday urged a U.S. appeals court to allow the suspension of Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case with potentially far-reaching impact on how the government regulates medicine.

The U.S. government on Thursday filed a civil lawsuit accusing the drug distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. of contributing to the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic by repeatedly failing to report suspicious orders of prescription painkillers.

The lawsuit accused Biogen of directing millions of dollars in kickbacks to doctors to prescribe its MS drugs Avonex, Tysabri and Tecfidera from 2009 to 2014, with kickbacks delivered in the form of “sham” consulting deals and speaker programs as well as lavish dinners and entertainment.

A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lacks the legal authority to impose a nationwide transportation mask mandate to address COVID-19.

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Cassava Sciences Inc. involving whether the biotech company manipulated research results for its experimental Alzheimer’s drug, two people familiar with the inquiry said.