Pfizer Unit to pay $1.3 Billion in multi-state court case

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Pfizer unit to pay $1.3 Billion in multi-state court case

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:36:50 -0500

 

 

This intentional misbranding and intentional illegal defrauding by

Pfizer is what all the big pharmauceutical companies have been doing

for years...intentionally killing people and runining lives so that

they can make huge profits. It is starting to catch up with them, but

to them, $1.3 Billion is just a drop in the bucket. Merck is likewise

guilty of the same things in their illegal and harmful promotion of

their drug Vioxx, which killed 55,000 people, and all the while they

knew it would kill people before they introduced it to market. The

big pharmaceutical companies control the FDA, and that is why the FDA

is against anything that cures or helps to minimize sickness,

illness, and disease by any natural means.

 

Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:35pm EDT

 

 

 

 

 

Pfizer unit to pay $1.3Billion in multi-state court case

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ed Johnson,J.D., Attorney

 

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney,

U.S. Department of Justice,

Western District of Texas.

Former Legal Counsel for

Wilford Hall MC and BAMC

 

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