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Eli Lilly (LLY), which makes the Prozac antidepressant that was blamed for a deadly shooting rampage 30 years ago, secretly paid the victims $20 million to help ensure a verdict exonerating the company, the Louisville Courier Journal reports. Lilly vigorously shielded the payment for more than two decades, defying a judge who fought to reveal it because he believed it swayed the jury’s verdict. Joseph Wesbecker began taking Prozac about a month before his murderous spree that killed eight and wounded 12.

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