Pfizer, in a lawsuit by a whistleblower, has admitted fraud and data manipulation on the veracity of the COVID-19 vaccines produced and distributed to various governments across the world. The fake vaccine producer also exposed that the United States (U.S.) government was aware of the false information provided on the vaccine and continued doing business with the company.
A whistleblower, Brook Jackson, had filed a suit raising alarm that Pfizer and two of its contractors manipulated data and were involved in other acts of fraud during Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trials. Apparently, Pfizer gave false information to beguile governments into accepting and purchasing Pfizer’s vaccine for prevention of coronavirus infection, but which turned to generate dangerous adverse effects, including deaths and permanent disability, among users.
Counsel to Jackson, the whistleblower, gas exposed that Pfizer is seeking escape from justice after destroying many lives with unreliable COVID-19 vaccines, relying on a clause of the legal instrument, the False Claims Act, which exonerates the wrongdoer if the government knew of the wrong doings and continued to do business with the wrongdoer. Pfizer revealed that the U.S. government knew of the wrongdoings in the clinical trials but continued to do business with the vaccine producer.
It was highlighted that under the False Claims Act, whistleblowers can be rewarded for confidentially disclosing fraud that results in a financial loss to the federal government.
A U.S. Supreme Court judgment in 2016 was said to have modified and expanded the scope of a legal principle known as “materiality” which culminated in a series of federal court decisions in which fraud cases brought under the False Claims Act were dismissed.
The Supreme Court interpretation was said to have denoted that “if the government continued paying a contractor despite the contractor’s fraudulent activity, the fraud was not considered “material” to the contract.”
The defendant counsel argued that Pfizer is a federal contractor because it signed multiple contracts with the U.S. government to provide COVID-19 vaccines and Paxlovid, a pill used to treat the virus.
Invariably, Pfizer had successfully deceived the U.S. government into spending billions of dollars to endanger the lives of millions of citizens, beside other countries of the world that subscribed to Pfizer vaccines.
Attorney Robert Barnes had remarked: “Pfizer claims they can get away with fraud as long as the government would write them a cheque despite knowing about the fraud.”
The two other defendants in the case were identified as Ventavia Research Group, which handled the vaccine trials on behalf of Pfizer, and ICON PLC, a Pfizer contractor.
Brook Jackson was a regional director at Ventavia for a brief period in 2020. She was dismissed after she leaked to the FDA irregularity issues with Pfizer’s vaccine trials.
She later sent to The BMU a bunch of internal company documents, photos, and recordings, exposing the wrongdoings of Ventavia.
The documents she leaked contained evidence of falsified data, blind trial failures and awareness on the part of at least one Ventavia executive that members of the company’s staff were “falsifying data.”
The documents also contained evidence of administrators who had “no training” or medical certifications, or who provided “very little oversight” during the trials.
Jackson, thereafter, filed her complaint in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division, in August 2021, saying Pfizer, Ventavia and ICON “deliberately withheld crucial information from the United States that calls the safety and efficacy of their vaccine into question.”
The U.S. Congress had in July 2021 adopted the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021 to strengthen the False Claims Act’s anti-retaliation provisions and provide new safeguards against industry-level blacklisting of whistleblowers seeking employment.
Pfizer recruited a well-connected lobbyist, Hazen Marshall, and the law firm, Williams & Jensen, in December 2021 to lobby against the legislation.
Previously, Pfizer was fined over the False Claims Act, the firm paid $2.3 billion in fines to settle part of the fine in 2009.
The 2009 settlement was identified as the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice, arising from allegations of illegal marketing of off-label products not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Barnes was cited to have stated that “Pfizer, one of the most criminally fined drug companies in the world, wants to weaken the laws that hold them accountable.”
Barnes had declared that “This case will determine if Big Pharma can rip off the American people using a dangerous drug that harms millions without any legal remedy because they claim the government was in on the scam.”