Craig McCoy

Dec 17, 2024 | propublica.org | Bob Fernandez |Craig McCoy |Dave Altimari |Ginny Monk

This article was produced in partnership with The Philadelphia Inquirer, which was a member of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in 2020-21. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. After a whistleblower exposed the criminal behavior of Endo, a drug manufacturer, the Justice Department waited more than a decade to bring charges against the company. Federal agencies said Endo owed up to $7 billion in criminal fines, back taxes and other charges.