Now we are starting to get to the heart of the matter, starting to identify where that hole in the Death Star is….

At this point, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is basically a public menace.

Eli Lilly & Company’s rap sheet as a public menace is so long that for Lilly watchers to overcome the “banality-of-Lilly-sleaziness” phenomenon, the drug company must break some type of record measuring egregiousness. Lilly obliged earlier this year, receiving the largest criminal fine ever imposed on a corporation.

Here’s the money shot line all should take note of bear in mind at all times…

If Americans are ever going to revoke the publicly granted charters of reckless, giant corporations — well within our rights – we might want to get the ball rolling with Lilly, whose recent actions appalled even the mainstream media. And with Lilly’s chums, the Bush family, out of power, now might be the right time.

On January 15, 2009, Lilly pled guilty to charges that it had illegally marketed its blockbuster drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses to children and the elderly, two populations especially vulnerable to its dangerous side effect. Lilly plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and agreed to pay $1.42 billion, which included $615 million to end the criminal investigation and approximately $800 million to settle the civil case.

One of the eight whistle-blowers in this case, former Lilly sales representative Robert Rudolph, says the settlement will not completely change Lilly’s business practices, and he wants jail time for executives. “You have to remember, with Zyprexa,” said Rudolph, “people lost their lives.”

Some of the commentary by readers of this article are good, as well.

If the corporation is a ‘person’, and said ‘person’ is convicted of murdering someone (as is the case here), then perhaps its time to apply the death penalty to that perpetrator.

Read the full article from AlterNet Here