April 20, 2021 - 1:23pm
Two pharmaceutical companies that are corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) were hit with some of the biggest criminal and regulatory penalties by federal and state governments in 2020. Other corporate ALEC members also paid significant fines and penalties last year.
There were over 17,000 penalties against thousands of companies in 2020. Of those operating in the U.S., the two ALEC corporations drugmakers Novartis and Mallinckrodt ranked among the top 10 violators.
ALEC is a pay-to-play operation where legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed doors to adopt model legislation on a broad range of public policy issues.