SENATOR VITALE DEMANDS BOB HUGIN RELEASE DETAILS OF CANCER TREATMENT SETTLEMENTS
SENATOR VITALE DEMANDS BOB HUGIN RELEASE DETAILS OF CANCER TREATMENT SETTLEMENTS
The public deserves to know how Hugin profited at the expense of
New Jersey residents when they were most vulnerable
WOODBRIDGE – Senator Joe Vitale, Chairman of the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, has spent his entire political career fighting for quality, affordable health care. Senator Vitale issued the following statement in response to Bob Hugin using cancer survivors as pawns to achieve political gain:
“Bob Hugin did not save people suffering from cancer – he exploited them. To see him now use the plight of cancer survivors to bankroll is campaign is offensive.
“The truth is Bob Hugin put profits over patients while the head of pharmaceutical giant Celgene. He paid $280 million to settle whistleblower charges that his company broke federal law, defrauded taxpayers and put patients at risk regarding the marketing of its cancer drugs, Revlimid and Thalomid. Specifically, Hugin and Celgene were accused of defrauding Medicare, marketing its drugs for uses not approved by the FDA, lying to doctors and patients about the drugs’ effectiveness and side effects, and orchestrating a kickback scheme in which Celgene paid physicians to prescribe their medications, in order to boost the company’s profits.
“Bob Hugin now seeks to reinvent himself and use the millions he made from drastically increasing the price of cancer treatments in an attempt to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. Hugin paid $280 million to avoid trial and make his problems go away, then had the record and his videotaped deposition sealed. It begs the question: What is he hiding? And while most rational people believe no one pays $280 million if he did nothing wrong, he should come clean, answer questions and be held accountable for what he did at Celgene.”
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