Indeed, many companies have been fined for many reasons. Medicare fraud or contributing to it through illegal promotional practices; off label promotions; price fixing; quid pro quo scams; ect.. Nothing new about that. I just find it amusing that this one book, if published and that's doubtful, will bring NV to its knees. It appears that your management is taking care of that all by it self. In looking at some of the posts on NV's boad, there are very few happy people around and its getting worse every day. From the OP's excerpts, I do see some issue with your speaker programs. Overly generous with honorariums and too many speakers in a particular geographical area could be a problem. I don't find too much else very revealing. I guess he's holding back so as to not give away his spectacular ending. And by the way, I don't give a f***. I just find this all hillarious.
Yes, book alone will not do it. I have to agree with you there. Novartis as many bigpharma cos have learned how to handle "bad" publicity with help by so many BSers at PR firms. It is that simple. Crisis happens, lets use our PR people and PR firms to handle it by BSing the public and everyone else with fabrications, lies and so on. They know it all. As to Novartis, they cut their teeth on the crisis they had some 25-30 years ago in Basel. In fact it was Sandoz and Ciba as separate cos at the time that were guilty of polluting the Rhine river with chemicals. They killed all the fish downstream and caused millions in damage. It was a disaster for both Cos and that is when they learned to be prepared for and to handle the crisis.
So if the book comes out as only thing, it may trigger some action by someone but I too think it will not hurt them.
The only way to get them is the way others were gotten. Must have Evidence of misconduct, go outside the Co and do it right. For those who do have the right evidence you should know by now what and how to do it. If not, start educating yourselves. Good start are folloeing threads right here "The WBers of Novartis unite" and "What is BPO..", "Payback time", $25.000 bounti " and some others.
This organization is so prepared, financed, organized, unscrupulous, ruthless, simply dangerous that anyone standing in their way better know what they are doing, for they will get you big time otherwise.
I speak from personal experience. Had I know then what I know now this Co would not have had such an easy time as they did. They are not unbeatable so if you have the right stuff, you'll beat them.
I am still not finished with them yet. There are forces in play that will overwhelm theirs. This is not an empty promise.