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Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. will plead guilty to charges it marketed an epilepsy medicine for unapproved uses and pay $422.5 million in civil and criminal penalties, federal officials announced Thursday.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. has agreed to pay $422.5 million stemming from illegal marketing of the anti-epileptic drug Trileptal and five other drugs, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. will plead guilty to charges it marketed an epilepsy medicine for unapproved uses and pay $422.5 million in civil and criminal penalties, federal officials announced Thursday.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. will pay $422.5 million in penalties for marketing an epilepsy medicine for unapproved uses and for paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe it and five other drugs, federal officials announced Thursday.