"Today's $97 million settlement ensures Gilead pays for defrauding a government insurance program and reaffirms the FBI's resolve to pursue investigations and exhaust all efforts to uncover these schemes." To date, the Department of Justice has collected over $1 billion from eleven pharmaceutical companies ( United Therapeutics, Pfizer, Actelion, Jazz, Lundbeck, Alexion, Astellas, Amgen, Sanofi, Novartis, and Gilead) that allegedly used third-party foundations as kickback vehicles. The Department also has reached settlements with four foundations ( Patient Access Network Foundation, Chronic Disease Fund, The Assistance Fund, and Patient Services, Inc.) and a pharmacy (Advanced Care Scripts, Inc.) that allegedly conspired or coordinated with pharmaceutical companies on these kickback schemes.