It does not pay for penalties, however -- or anything at all if the I.R.S. determines that the taxpayer committed fraud.
Mr. Getnick is chairman of the board of Taxpayers Against Fraud.
Patrick Burns, spokesman for Taxpayers Against Fraud, an advocacy group for whistle-blowers, said, "Who at Glaxo is going to jail as a part of this settlement?
"There is a 100 percent chance that you will be unemployed — the question is, Will you be forever unemployable?" said Patrick Burns, a spokesman for Taxpayers Against Fraud.
"I looked upon it with sadness," Patrick Burns, spokesman for the whistle-blower advocacy group Taxpayers Against Fraud, said of Mr. Loucks' change.
Patrick Burns, a spokesman for Taxpayers Against Fraud, an advocacy group for whistle-blowers, said that civil fraud cases, related criminal settlements and recoveries for states exceeded $4 billion last year, and that he believed the number would more than double this year.
As part of its "corporate integrity agreement" with the Justice Department, it now may revoke an executive's bonus if he or a subordinate engages in shady deeds.Patrick Burns of Taxpayers Against Fraud, an advocacy group, is not impressed.
Patrick Burns, a spokesman for Taxpayers Against Fraud, a Washington nonprofit group that works with many whistle-blowers under the federal False Claims Act, said the government nearly always wins when it joins such a legal action.
"The way you get more hunting dogs showing up is you feed them," said Patrick Burns, communications director at Taxpayers Against Fraud, the legal industry group that sponsored the conference.
