The Case for Giving Eli Lilly the Corporate Death Penalty

At this point, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is basically a public menace.

If Americans are ever going to revoke the publicly granted charters of reckless, giant corporations -- well within our rights -- we might want to get the ball rolling with Lilly, whose recent actions appalled even the mainstream media. And with Lilly's chums, the Bush family, out of power, now might be the right time.

On January 15, 2009, Lilly pled guilty to charges that it had illegally marketed its blockbuster drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 7, 2009

Levine chronicles a long list of sociopathic actions by Lilly as documented in court cases. The attendant use of well paid for political allies to further their crimes is also documented. There is a legal ability to revoke corporate charters, and he suggests this is the time and the corporation to exercise this ability.

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