DOJ Shuts Down Abbott Labs Baby Formula Case, Signaling Broader Corporate Prosecution Retreat
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Ben Penn
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Justice Department leaders shut down a long-running criminal case against Abbott Laboratories over contaminated baby formula, and this has triggered a broader retreat from corporate prosecutions aimed at protecting consumer health. The DOJ Criminal Division head Tysen Duva and his aides were overruled by the deputy attorney general's office, which ended the criminal investigation earlier this year. This pullback is now affecting other food and drug industry probes as well.
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· 3 pulledJustice Department leaders' shutdown of a long-running criminal case against Abbott Laboratories over contaminated baby formula has fueled a broader pullback on corporate prosecutions protecting consumer health
DOJ Criminal Division head Tysen Duva and his top aides have directed prosecutors to close other food and drug industry probes
the deputy attorney general's office, then led by Todd Blanche, overruled Duva's effort to charge the company and its executives, ending the criminal investigation earlier this year
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