By Bruce E. Levine
Excerpt:
At this point, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is basically a public
menace.
Eli Lilly & Company’s rap sheet as a public menace is so long that for Lilly
watchers to overcome the “banality-of- Lilly-sleaziness ” phenomenon, the drug
company must break some type of record measuring egregiousness. Lilly
obliged earlier this year, receiving the largest criminal fine ever imposed
on a corporation.