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By Greg Burns, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 11--If there was any doubt about just how serious a federal judge was during last week's sentencing of TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc., he bluntly warned the company and its owners against soft-peddling the terms of their record settlement.

Chief U.S. District Judge William G. Young in Boston sentenced Lake Forest-based TAP to five years of probation, in addition to a previously announced $290 million criminal fine for its role in a scheme to defraud government health insurers in the marketing of its prostate cancer drug Lupron.

The joint venture of North Chicago-based ...

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