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Apr. 15, 2011

InterMune CEO Gets Detention, Probation

Suggesting his case may have been better handled with civil charges, a federal judge sentenced a former pharmaceutical executive charged with off-label drug marketing to home detention.


By Rebecca Beyer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


After failing yet again to convince a federal judge that any financial loss could be linked to conclusions in a press release about the efficacy of a drug, prosecutors came up short in their bid to secure a prison term for the former chief executive of InterMune Inc.


U.S. Senior District Judge Marilyn H. Patel sentenced Dr. W. Scott Harkonen, founder of the Brisbane-based biopharmaceutical company, t...

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