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# Grassley Praises Generic Drug Price Fix Prosecution
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/grassley-praises-generic-drug-price-fix-prosecution/
- Published: 2017-01-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T21:59:00.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5137684

Sen. **Charles Grassley** (R-IA) says the Justice Department “deserves credit for bringing a case over the price fixing of generic drugs. Consumers pay the price for criminal conduct, and the Justice Department is doing its job to protect the public from such conduct.” His statement came in response to guilty pleas from two former New Jersey pharmaceutical executives charged with conspiring to manipulate prices of a popular antibiotic and a diabetes medicine between 4/2013 and 12/2015\. The two held executive positions at Heritage Pharmaceuticals and are reported to be cooperating with federal investigators as the focus shifts to larger firms and what role they may have played in the antitrust scheme, according to the [*Philadelphia Inquirer*](http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new%5Fjersey/20170110%5FEx-N%5FJ%5F%5Fpharma%5Fexecs%5Fadmit%5Fto%5Ffixing%5Fgeneric%5Fdrug%5Fprices.html?ref=fdaweb.com).

Grassley also said that the Obama administration “has been largely unresponsive to my inquiries” about misclassification of drugs under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program that Grassley says may have cost taxpayers and states hundreds of millions of dollars in overpayments. “Has the administration taken any action to recover this money for the taxpayers and states?” Grassley asked. “We don’t know because the administration refuses to say. I intend to continue to pursue answers and all due refunds for the taxpayers. If the Obama Administration won’t answer these questions, maybe the incoming administration will.”