The Priesthood of Pharmaceutical Purists use trial attorney winnings to in part finance their attack on industry. One of their meal tickets is going to three squares behind bars.....
"Milberg Weiss' Bershad Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy in Kickback Plan
Name partner at securities plaintiffs law firm agrees to cooperate and to forfeit $7.75 million"
David J. Bershad, a name partner at securities plaintiffs law firm Milberg Weiss & Bershad, has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he conspired in the payment of illegal kickbacks to individual class action plaintiffs.
The guilty plea by Bershad, entered Monday afternoon in federal court in Los Angeles, raises the stakes for his co-defendants, former fellow name partner Steven G. Schulman and the Milberg Weiss firm itself, as well as the other major Milberg Weiss figures, Melvyn I. Weiss and William S. Lerach, who have so far escaped indictment.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1183971987057&rss=newswire
Now Millberg Weiss is part of the Prescription Access Litigation Project (PAL). But PAL conveniently leaves the firm off it's website. But since drugwonks is all about transparency, here is a reminder of their close connection, courtesy of MassPIRG
http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=5318&id3=MA& and PAL itself
http://www.prescriptionaccess.org/press/pressreleases?id=0013
"Milberg Weiss' Bershad Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy in Kickback Plan
Name partner at securities plaintiffs law firm agrees to cooperate and to forfeit $7.75 million"
David J. Bershad, a name partner at securities plaintiffs law firm Milberg Weiss & Bershad, has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he conspired in the payment of illegal kickbacks to individual class action plaintiffs.
The guilty plea by Bershad, entered Monday afternoon in federal court in Los Angeles, raises the stakes for his co-defendants, former fellow name partner Steven G. Schulman and the Milberg Weiss firm itself, as well as the other major Milberg Weiss figures, Melvyn I. Weiss and William S. Lerach, who have so far escaped indictment.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1183971987057&rss=newswire
Now Millberg Weiss is part of the Prescription Access Litigation Project (PAL). But PAL conveniently leaves the firm off it's website. But since drugwonks is all about transparency, here is a reminder of their close connection, courtesy of MassPIRG
http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=5318&id3=MA& and PAL itself
http://www.prescriptionaccess.org/press/pressreleases?id=0013
