The CNBC show "American Greed" highlights the case of Bextra, a Pfizer drug linked to a fatal skin disease that was illegally marketed for off-label use. Pfizer eventually paid $2.3 billion in civil and criminal fines, the largest such penalty in U.S. history at the time. The hosts note that despite the massive fine and criminal counts, no executives were sent to jail, and the story received relatively little mainstream media attention.
