Drugs giant Bristol-Meyers Squibb and a former subsidiary have been hauled over the coals and forced to pay more than half a billion dollars to settle settle federal and state investigations for promoting an anti-psychotic drug, Ablify, for uses that were not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and providing illegal inducements to doctors and other health care providers.

The inducements included consulting fees and all expenses paid trips to resorts to attend conferences. There were also allegations that Bristol-Myers Squibb was behind the submission of false or fraudulent claims to medicaid, Medicare and other federal health programs.

You can read more about it in the news report from the Boston Herald or you can check the detail in the settlement agreement here.