Aegerion To Pay $35M To Settle Criminal, False Claims Cases, $4M To Settle SEC Action

(September 25, 2017, 12:26 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay more than $35 million to resolve federal criminal misdemeanor charges and civil claims that it promoted its expensive cholesterol drug Juxtapid for off-label uses and violated patient privacy and kickback laws in the process, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced Sept. 22 (United States of America v. Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., No. 17-cr-10288, D. Mass.)....