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Pfizer Whistleblower Kopchinski Gets Big Paycheck

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Sep 02 2009 6:32pm EDT

Payday for a Whistleblower

Just in case you've been thinking about tattling on your company or your superiors for some malfeasance, here's a heartwarming story: the former Pfizer sales rep who got so worked up over how the company sold its pain drug Bextra and filed a lawsuit to stop the practice got his payday today.

The total payout for his six-year-long campaign against the world's biggest drug maker? A cool $51.1 million.

"We're going to be staying right here in San Antonio in the same house, and my wife tells me when we go to the movies we're still getting one tub of popcorn -- the large tub," Kopchinski told a Reuters reporter in a telephone interview from his home in Texas.

Get the full story here.

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