The New York Times has a summary of the $500 million settlement that Google reached with the federal government regarding charges that Google had "knowingly shown illegal ads for fraudulent Canadian pharmacies in the United States".
Illegal online pharmacies have been a challenge for regulators, because the Internet makes it easy for them to operate under the radar and emerge under different names when they get shut down.
There are some comments in the discussion section that suggest that
"These so-called 'illegal' pharmacies exist purely because the cost of pharmaceuticals are artificially, ridiculously (and intentionally) high-priced in the U.S. If the costs were more equitable the online pharmacies could not compete and it then becomes an automatic non-issue."
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