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This has been a blockbuster year for federal regulators investigating bribery in the pharmaceutical industry.

Three of the world’s biggest drug companies, along with two smaller companies, agreed to pay a collective $63 million this year to settle allegations that they violated the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing doctors and government officials to promote their medicines overseas.

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