Valeant's outgoing CEO made an insane amount of money last year
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It was the year the international giant was brought to its knees.
In October accusations of malfeasance from a short seller combined with government scrutiny over Valeant's drug pricing practices to drag its stock down almost 70%.
Pearson stepped down from the company earlier this month, after it was forced to change its business model, shut down a previously undisclosed internal pharmacy called Philidor, and filed its annual report over a month late, risking defaulting on its $30 billion debt load.
On Wednesday, Pearson, the company's former CFO and billionaire hedge fund investor and board member Bill Ackman testified before Congress, answering for hiking the prices of a number of critical drugs to exhorbitant levels.
Since then the company has also announced that longstanding board members will step down.
New CEO Joe Papa starts on Monday.
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