Last summer , Google had to pay $ 500 million to avoid deplorable pursuance by the US governance . Using a convict con artist , the feds captivate Google aiding illegal online pharmaceutic drug sales agreement . The surgical operation — asdescribed by the Wall Street Journal — is movie cloth .
The con artist is the gentleman in the photo : David Whitaker . He present himself as a Canadian drug dealers ’ agent to Google sales executives . The government suspected that Google was aiding these illegal pharmacies by illegally publishing ads sell narcotics , sex hormone and other controlled substances to US citizen .
They hit the jackpot . The Google execs avariciously bite the decoy and Whitaker spent $ 200,000 in government money pay the Mountain View hunting giant to publish these illegal advertizement .
The feds recorded incriminatory phone vociferation and emails showing that Google ad sales White House were all aware of the effectual office of the pharmacy and its reprehensible implications , yet decide to take the money anyway . Whitaker told the WSJ that “ it was very obvious to Google that my website was not a licensed chemist’s shop . Understanding this , Google provided me with a very generous quotation stock and allowed me to set my target advertising directly to American consumer . ”
The government built such a strong case that Google had no other row than to settle .
According to their investigation , this went beyond just a few advertizing execs . Lead public prosecutor Peter Neronha articulate they have proof that Larry Page — one of Google ’s laminitis and now Google ’s CEO — have a go at it about this activity and the fact that it was illegal : “ [ w]e but get laid from the documents we reviewed and informant we interviewed that Larry Page knew what was conk out on . ”
Do no iniquity , indeed . The whole story is enchanting and a upright long read . Read it all at the [ WSJ ]
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