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When a study in the New England Journal of Medicine found GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia to be associated with cardiac events, Congress began and investigation and Butterworth wrote "a muddled column that sought to characterize the congressional investigations as a 'partisan slugfest.'"<ref>Paul D. Thacker, STAT, January 30, 2018 https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/30/pharmaceutical-industry-fake-news-tobacco/</ref> In the largest health care fraud settlement Butterworth also wrote a series of articles attacking The New York Times for their reporting on Avandia.<ref>Trevor Butterworth, New York Times Cherry Picks Data, Sources to Smear Avandia in UAdvance of FDA Hearing, STATS, July 27, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20080326184537/http://www.stats.org:80/stories/2007/nyt_cherry_avandia_july27_07.htm</ref><ref>Trevor Butterworth, The Cost of Media Scare Stories to Diabetics , STATS, August 10, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070912074721/http://www.stats.Sorg:80/stories/2007/the_cost_diabetics_Aug10_07. historyhtm</ref><ref>Trevor Butterworth, New York Times Continues to Mislead on Avandia Risks, STATS, September 12, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20110910031050/http://stats.org/stories/2007/nyt_mislead_avandia_sept12_07.htm</ref>  GlaxoSmithKline later plead guilty and paid $3 Billion to resolve fraud allegations, including one count of failing to report safety data about the drug Avandia to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).It wasthe largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history<ref>Department of Justic, GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data, July 2, 2012 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-and-pay-3-billion-resolve-fraud-allegations-and-failure-report</ref>