DOJ Dropped Secret Criminal Charges Against Baby Formula Giant Abbott Despite Claims Contaminated Milk 'Sickened And Killed' Infants

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Abbott, You Are Not Going to Jail After All

Four years ago, I wrote two posts with titles I meant: “Mr. Abbott, you are going to face criminal sanctions” and, a few weeks earlier, “Mr. Abbott, you are going to jail for manufacturing tainted infant formula.” I was wrong. Not about the facts — about the willingness of this Justice Department to do anything about them.The Wall Street Journal reported last night, in “The Baby Formula Probe Produced a Pile of Evidence. Then the DOJ Dropped the…

DOJ Dropped Secret Criminal Charges Against Baby Formula Giant Abbott Despite Claims Contaminated Milk 'Sickened And Killed' Infants

Federal prosecutors who spent more than three years assembling a criminal case against the largest baby formula maker in the United States have abandoned it, even after gathering what investigators viewed as a substantial body of evidence. The Justice Department has closed its criminal investigation into Abbott Laboratories over the handling of its Sturgis, Michigan plant, the source of a 2022 outbreak of potentially deadly bacteria and a nation…

US DOJ closes criminal probe into Abbott over baby formula plant, WSJ reports - Regional Media News

June 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department closed a criminal probe into Abbott Laboratories over its handling of a baby formula plant linked to potentially deadly bacteria and infant deaths, opting instead for civil penalties, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The U.S. Department of Justice and Abbott Laboratories did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside business…