https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191111005130/en/Sir-Andrew-Witty-Named-UnitedHealth-Group-President
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January 2012 - Andrew Witty was Knighted for services to the economy and to the UK pharmaceutical industry after only four years as CEO of GSK.
March 31, 2017 - Andrew Witty is shown the door at Glaxo SmithKline amidst allegations against the corporation of corruption, bribery, illegal marketing, contaminated d–gs and collusion during is tenure as CEO.
No takebacks on the knighthood thing I guess.
Holy heck. This is so over & done. Some say: Contact the State Atty. General? Aren’t they usually paid off too??? This money goes all the way back to the “Motherland,” England. Deep pockets. So politicians have been bought and paid for, and put in place. My tiny little worker voice is no more.......
Just "practicing" for the Big Pharma/US system takeover of the UK NHS for profit. Just look at the shift to UK Executives in the last few years/
If any of us regular folks had a criminal record, we would be hard pressed to get a job, but somehow this dude is made president of UHG?! And people why we're frustrated with corporations and the 1%...
Hi bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Witty
A few call outs:
On 2 July 2012, GSK pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to a $3 billion settlement of the largest health-care fraud case in the U.S. and the largest payment by a d–g company.[12] The settlement is related to the company's illegal promotion of pr-scrip-ion d–gs, its failure to report safety data,[13] bribing doctors, and promoting medicines for uses for which they were not licensed. The d–gs involved were Paxil, Wellbutrin, Advair, Lamictal, and Zofran for off-label, non-covered uses. Those and the d–gs Imitrex, Lotronex, Flovent, and Valtrex were involved in the alleged bribery scheme.[14][15][16]
In October 2012 it was announced that he had been appointed the Chancellor of the University of Nottingham with effect from 1 January 2013, having maintained strong ties with the university since graduation.[17]
In July 2013, the People's Republic of China announced that they were investigating allegations of fraud perpetrated by GSK going back to 2007 and involving thousands of millions of renminbi.[18] Four GSK executives have already been arrested in China. It is alleged that the money was used, inter alia, to bribe around 25 travel agencies that organize conferences for doctors, in order to encourage the agencies to host GSK events. Witty later claimed that he knew nothing about the China fraud and tried to pass the blame onto subordinates.[19]
In November 2015 Witty's leadership of GSK was criticised by Neil Woodford, who said that "he’s not doing a very good job". Woodford called for GSK to be split into four companies.[20] In March 2016 Witty announced that he was to stand down as chief executive.[21] He has since become CEO of Optum, a healthcare business.[22]
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Doesn't it seem like they are attempting to merge services of UHC and Optum? This is only the beginning.
Was announced a couple of weeks ago internally. But UHG depts should be ready for some "Sir..rious" Cuts.