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Roche Wins $6 Million From Pharma Fraudster Pardoned by Trump

Aug. 1, 2024, 9:15 PM UTC
Mike Leonard
Mike Leonard
Legal Reporter

A Roche Holding AG affiliate succeeded Thursday in clawing back $5.9 million from the ex-CEO of a company it acquired, W. Scott Harkonen, who was found guilty of wire fraud and pardoned by then-President Donald Trump.

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant is entitled to recoup legal fees stemming from Harkonen’s 2009 felony conviction for hyping an autoimmune therapy made by InterMune Inc., the biotech company he led, a Delaware judge ruled. A Roche subsidiary bought InterMune for nearly $9 billion in 2014.

Vice Chancellor Nathan A. Cook, writing in a 51-page opinion, said Harkonen was improperly trying relitigate the conviction ...

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