While the Senate documents indicate that General Pinochet received payments in connection with official business he conducted in foreign countries, they do not identify the source of the payments in some cases.
Becton Dickinson says it ended up making only about $800,000 in added payments in connection with the hypodermic contract, though Novation says the company paid the full amount.
Johnson & Johnson said in a regulatory filing that it had voluntary disclosed to federal agencies that company subsidiaries abroad may have made improper payments in connection with the sale of medical devices in two countries.
Those remarks angered Mr. Breeden, who issued a statement yesterday saying, "There is not any doubt whatsoever that the payments in connection with these supposed 'noncompete' agreements were not authorized by the board".
Certain subsidiaries, which Johnson & Johnson did not name, "are believed to have made improper payments in connection with the sale of medical devices in two small-market countries," the statement said.
NEW ORLEANS — With BP's agreement on Thursday to plead guilty to 14 criminal charges and pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments in connection with its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Coast politicians are now eyeing a much bigger potential windfall from the company: $20 billion or more in civil pollution penalties for the spill.
The charges unsealed yesterday by federal prosecutors on Long Island said Ms. Amsterdam received payments in connection with cases that she did not disclose to courts, including at least one case when she was appointed to represent a defendant who was supposedly indigent.
The dismissal of the two executives is the latest development in investigations under way in France and the United States that have uncovered a $180 million web of payments in connection with efforts to win contracts to build a $4 billion natural gas complex in Nigeria.
In 2007, a similar level of people reported that they made 'other payments' in connection with the consultation, such as those for diagnostic tests, as was the case in 2004 (20% vs. 17%, respectively).
Dissatisfied health care consumers who have no possibility to satisfy their needs elsewhere (exiting the system is not possible) or cannot openly make complains (voice is not an option) are using informal channels, such as payment or connections to improve their situation, i.e. to assure better care [ 12].
