AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – Shortly before graduating to the governor’s office, former Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott included the State in a lawsuit brought by four whistleblowers against AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.

The whistleblowers originally filed a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging AstraZeneca misled the Texas Medicaid program into placing the cholesterol drug Crestor on the state’s Preferred Drug List, a placement that led to more doctors willing to prescribe the drug.