In today's Philadelphia Inquirer in a story entitled "FDA: Pfizer ignored warnings, gets record fine" we learn that:
The [$2.3 billion] fine, which had been expected, was the largest ever paid by a drug company for defrauding the government's Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The U.S.
Justice Department said that it included the largest criminal fine in U.S. history - $1.2 billion.