Unfortunately, these records don't seem to last long -- Eli Lilly set the previous record with its illegal Viva Zyprexa campaign just last January.
Like the Zyprexa case, the criminal charges against Pfiser come from "off-label" marketing of a drug -- this time Bextra, an anti-inflammatory which Pfizer yanked from the shelves in 2005. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Pfizer marketed the drug for a variety of uses which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) specifically refused to approve due to safety concerns. See FindLaw's Common Law, for basics regarding FDA drug approval and subsequent marketing.
The criminal fine against Pfizer is $1.195 billion, with another $105 million to be paid by its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. Whistleblower suits filed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Kentucky triggered the federal investigation.
According to the DOJ, the size of Pfizer's fine came in part because of the company's duplicitous dealings with federal prosecutors. As one US attorney put it:
"Pfizer violated the law over an extensive time period. Furthermore, at the very same time Pfizer was in our office negotiating and resolving the allegations of criminal conduct by its then newly acquired subsidiary, Warner-Lambert, Pfizer was itself in its other operations violating those very same laws."In addition to the honor of largest criminal fine of any type from the feds ever (according to the DOJ), Pfizer will also pay the largest civil fraud settlement ($1 billion) ever forced on a pharmaceutical company in the US.
"food" is designed to make you sick so you take the pharmaceuticals. Our immune systems are denied any chance at a natural development because people have been brainwashed to never consume any food that is not sterile, and to never get dirty. If you do get dirty burn your clothes and bathe yourself in antimicrobial soaps and cleansers. Sterile food is a poison. Never getting dirty prevents immune system growth.
dome vaccines make others around you sick by propagating the illness they are supposed to be preventing, thus "proving" the need for the vaccine in a circular tail chase. Fuck the FDA and USDA. They are the designers of our demise as a healthy species. Most countries usually defer their decisions on regulations to parallel what the USDA and FDA declare is best course.
They are screwing most of the world.