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Google agreed Wednesday to pay a $500 million fine to the U.S. government for knowingly allowing Canadian pharmacies to advertise prescription drugs to U.S. residents.
Importing drugs into the U.S. is not legal, though the feds almost always turn a blind eye to drugs from Canada and don’t prosecute individuals.
The forfeiture, which the feds describe as one of the largest ever, forces Google to return all the revenue it generated from those ads, and pay the feds the estimated gross revenue of the Canadian pharmacy sites that placed the ads.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/google-drug-fine/
Importing drugs into the U.S. is not legal, though the feds almost always turn a blind eye to drugs from Canada and don’t prosecute individuals.
The forfeiture, which the feds describe as one of the largest ever, forces Google to return all the revenue it generated from those ads, and pay the feds the estimated gross revenue of the Canadian pharmacy sites that placed the ads.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/google-drug-fine/