Pfizer? Yeah, good question. Why would you trust them?

 

Violation Tracker Parent Company Summary

Parent Company Name:  

Pfizer

Ownership Structure:  

publicly traded (ticker symbol PFE)

Headquartered in:  

New York

Major Industry:  

pharmaceuticals

Specific Industry:  

pharmaceuticals

Penalty total since 2000:  

$10,193,896,333

Number of records:  

75

Top 5 Offense Groups (Groups Defined)	Penalty Total	Number of Records
safety-related offenses	$5,637,014,255	15
healthcare-related offenses	$3,373,675,000	10
government-contracting-related offenses	$1,109,688,435	19
competition-related offenses	$63,466,568	6
environment-related offenses	$4,571,885	19
Top 5 Primary Offense Types	Penalty Total	Number of Records
drug or medical equipment safety violation	$5,636,840,000	9
off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	$3,373,675,000	10
False Claims Act and related	$1,109,688,435	19
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	$60,216,568	3
environmental violation	$4,571,885	19

Notes: 

Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the individual entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. The totals are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the list below.

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For an overview of this company's accountability track record, read its Corporate Rap Sheet here.

For more details on misconduct by this company, see its entry in the Project On Government Oversight's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database.

Subsidy Tracker data on financial assistance to this company by federal, state and local government agencies can be found here.

Violation Tracker UK data on for this company can be found here.

Individual Penalty Records:

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Company	Primary Offense Type	Year	Agency	Penalty Amount
American Home Products	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2002	private lawsuit-federal	$3,750,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2009	FDA	$2,300,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2016	DOJ_CIVIL	$784,600,000
Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2004	private lawsuit-federal	$750,000,000
Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2008	private lawsuit-federal	$745,000,000
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2013	FDA	$490,900,000
Warner-Lambert	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2004	FDA	$430,000,000
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2016	MULTI-AG	(*) $371,351,180
Pfizer, Inc.	kickbacks and bribery	2009	MULTI-AG	(*) $331,485,170
Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2013	private lawsuit-federal	$288,000,000
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2013	MULTI-AG	(*) $257,400,000
Warner-Lambert	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2004	MULTI-AG	(*) $190,000,000
King Pharmaceuticals	False Claims Act and related	2005	DOJ_CIVIL	$124,000,000
King Pharmaceuticals	False Claims Act and related	2006	MULTI-AG	(*) $124,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2008	MULTI-AG	$60,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2012	FDA	$55,000,000
Pfizer Corporation	False Claims Act and related	2002	DOJ_CIVIL	$49,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2012	MULTI-AG	$42,900,000
Alpharma Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2010	DOJ_CIVIL	$42,500,000
Pfizer Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2019	IL-AG	$41,047,101
Pfizer	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2014	MULTI-AG	$35,000,000
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Division	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2000	FDA	$30,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	2012	SEC	$26,339,944
Pfizer, Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2018	DOJ_CIVIL	$23,850,000
Pfizer Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2002	MULTI-AG	(*) $21,084,700
Wyeth LLC	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	2012	SEC	$18,876,624
Pfizer Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2013	TX-AG	$18,170,000
Pfizer H.C.P. Corporation	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	2012	DOJ_CRIMINAL	$15,000,000
Pfizer Inc.	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2011	FDA	$14,500,000
Alpharma USPD, Inc. and Purepac Pharmaceutical Co.	False Claims Act and related	2011	KY-AG	$10,200,000
Pfizer Inc.	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	NV-AG	$9,500,000
Alpharma Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2010	MULTI-AG	(*) $8,900,000
Pfizer, Inc. and Pharmacia Corporation	False Claims Act and related	2010	HI-AG	$8,200,000
Pfizer	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2003	MULTI-AG	$6,000,000
Pfizer, Inc.	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2012	OR-AG	$3,340,000
Pfizer Inc. and Pharmacia Corp.	False Claims Act and related	2012	ID-AG	$2,900,000
Pfizer Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2011	MULTI-AG	(*) $2,621,154
Alpharma, Inc.	price-fixing or anti-competitive practices	2004	FTC	$2,500,000
King Pharmaceuticals LLC	environmental violation	2013	EPA	$2,200,000
KING PHARMACEUTICALS	environmental violation	2013	EPA	(*) $2,200,000
Alpharma USPD, Inc.,	False Claims Act and related	2011	MS-AG	$2,010,667
Purepac Pharmaceutical Co., n/k/a Actavis Elizabeth, LLC	False Claims Act and related	2011	MS-AG	$2,010,667
Wyeth	benefit plan administrator violation	2013	private lawsuit-federal	$2,000,000
Pfizer	employment discrimination	2009	private lawsuit-federal	$1,365,003
Pfizer Inc.	environmental violation	2008	EPA	$975,000
Pfizer	consumer protection violation	2019	OR-AG	$975,000
PFIZER GLOBAL MANUFACTURING	environmental violation	2008	EPA	(*) $975,000
Alpharma, Inc.	price-fixing or anti-competitive practices	2004	MULTI-AG	$750,000
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC	environmental violation	2014	EPA	$728,000
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, LLC	environmental violation	2014	EPA	(*) $728,000
Pfizer Inc.	consumer protection violation	2018	NY-AG	$700,000
Alpharma USPD, Inc.	False Claims Act and related	2010	ID-AG	$600,000
Purepac Pharmaceutical Co.	False Claims Act and related	2010	ID-AG	$600,000
Hospira Inc.	employment discrimination	2015	OFCCP	$400,000
Pfizer Inc.	off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products	2013	MA-AG	$375,000
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, LLC	environmental violation	2016	EPA	$190,000
HOSPIRA, INC.	workplace safety or health violation	2004	OSHA	$132,300
SEARLE LTD	environmental violation	2002	EPA	$95,000
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Company, Inc.	environmental violation	2010	EPA	$77,000
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC	environmental violation	2005	EPA	$55,000
Wyeth Rouses Point	environmental violation	2008	EPA	$44,500
Pfizer Inc.	environmental violation	2006	CT-ENV	$40,224
Wyeth Biopharma	wage and hour violation	2005	WHD	$40,187
Wyeth Ayerst Pharmaceuticals	environmental violation	2004	EPA	$37,000
Pfizer, Inc.	environmental violation	2010	CT-ENV	$31,266
WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS COMPANY - OTC	environmental violation	2000	EPA	$25,000
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals	environmental violation	2010	EPA	$24,650
PFIZER INC / GROTON SITE	environmental violation	2005	EPA	$22,500
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Ltd.	environmental violation	2004	EPA	$20,025
Pfizer Inc.	railroad safety violation	2002	FRA	$11,250
PFIZER, INC.	workplace safety or health violation	2012	OSHA	$9,600
KING PHARMACEUTICALS	workplace safety or health violation	2001	OSHA	$7,200
PFIZER, INC.	workplace safety or health violation	2009	OSHA	$7,155
HOSPIRA	workplace safety or health violation	2006	OSHA	$6,750
Pfizer Inc.	environmental violation	2012	CA-DPR	$6,720

 

SOCIALISM... Did we not settle this issue before?

Socialists, who would transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life.

That the spirit of revolutionary change, which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not surprising. The elements of the conflict now raging are unmistakable, in the vast expansion of industrial pursuits and the marvellous discoveries of science; in the changed relations between masters and workmen; in the enormous fortunes of some few individuals, and the utter poverty of the masses; the increased self reliance and closer mutual combination of the working classes; as also, finally, in the prevailing moral degeneracy. The momentous gravity of the state of things now obtaining fills every mind with painful apprehension; wise men are discussing it; practical men are proposing schemes; popular meetings, legislatures, and rulers of nations are all busied with it - actually there is no question which has taken deeper hold on the public mind.

In any case we clearly see, and on this there is general agreement, that some opportune remedy must be found quickly for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class: for the ancient working men's guilds were abolished in the last century, and no other protective organization took their place. Public institutions and the laws set aside the ancient religion. Hence, by degrees it has come to pass that working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition. The mischief has been increased by rapacious usury, which, although more than once condemned, is nevertheless, under a different guise, but with like injustice, still practiced by covetous and grasping men. To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man's envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.

It is surely undeniable that, when a man engages in remunerative labor, the impelling reason and motive of his work is to obtain property, and thereafter to hold it as his very own. If one man hires out to another his strength or skill, he does so for the purpose of receiving in return what is necessary for the satisfaction of his needs; he therefore expressly intends to acquire a right full and real, not only to the remuneration, but also to the disposal of such remuneration, just as he pleases. Thus, if he lives sparingly, saves money, and, for greater security, invests his savings in land, the land, in such case, is only his wages under another form; and, consequently, a working man's little estate thus purchased should be as completely at his full disposal as are the wages he receives for his labor. But it is precisely in such power of disposal that ownership obtains, whether the property consist of land or chattels. Socialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life. - Pope Leo XIII (Circa 1891)

 

Please go back and read the above passage one more time and think about what is happening today...need I say more!

AM I THE ONLY ONE

On the way home today I heard the close-out song (lyrics below) of a talk-radio host…this was his last show of the year that he would be hosting; no, he’s not going anywhere just yet, guest hosts will fill in for him until after the New Year holiday. Personally, I think he’s one of the best and most knowledgeable talk-show host on the radio…his arguments cannot be broken (And I’ll attest to that; no one has done it yet!).  The song has a certain patriotic beat and I’ve heard parts of it before but never did I listen to the entire song until today.  It made me think, “Am I the only one?”

Our country is divided today…more than it ever has been since 1860.  Oh, I could have said, “Since the Civil War.”  But what difference would it make when almost half the country has no idea what the Civil War was or when it started.  They don’t teach history today, the powers to be change history…and they’re being pretty successful at it. And if you don’t believe that, you might be the only one. So we are divided, and not just by political parties (Democrat and Republican) but by association. By association, yes!  A much better system than the two-party domineering power seekers we have today.  Two quotes that back up my philosophy follow:

            There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. – John Adams (2^nd President of the United States)

Among the laws that rule human societies there is one that seems more precise and clearer than all the others. In order that men remain civilized or become so, the art of associating must be developed and perfected among them in the same ratio as equality of conditions increases. - Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville

While we’re on deTocqueville let me add this:

Tocqueville fell out of fashion during the late nineteenth century, perhaps because Germany, not America, seemed to have caught the wave of the future. German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck embraced socialism and established the first modern welfare state, and people everywhere looked to Germany for leadership.

But socialism triggered communism, fascism, Nazism, and other brutal tyrannies that slaughtered tens of millions during the twentieth century. The welfare state shackled hundreds of millions more with taxes and regulations.  Then after World War II, America emerged as the world’s brightest hope. Tocqueville predicted it all.

Less I stray too far off my topic let’s get back to the song; Am I The Only One.  Yes, that’s the title, “Am I The Only One.”  Because we are so divided I have often felt like I am the only one wanting to do something about it but obviously I’m not…the words are in the lyrics and they’re being sung over the radio.  And without too many calculations I could come up with at least seventy million more people to answer the question, “Am I the only one?”  But right now I am the only one who has stated, “I’m willing to fight this division, but I’m damn sure not going to do it alone,” – Norman Hooben

P.S. Does the above commentary and the lyrics below sound like a prelude to something unimaginable?  Yeah! And it’s called war.  This division cannot go on without one!

 

Am I The Only One

Aaron Lewis

Am I the only one here tonight
Shakin' my head and thinkin' somethin' ain't right
Is it just me? Am I losin' my mind?
Am I standin' on the edge of the end of time?
Am I the only one? Tell me I'm not
Who thinks they're takin' all the good we got
And turnin' it bad, hell, I'll be damned
I think I'm turnin' into my old man

Am I the only one, willin' to bleed
Or take a bullet for bein' free
Screamin', "What the fuck" at my TV
For tellin' me, yeah, are you tellin' me?
That I'm the only one, willin' to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue, burnin' on the ground
Another statue comin' down in a town near you
Watchin' the threads of Old Glory come undone

Am I the only one not brainwashed?
Makin' my way through the land of the lost
Who still gives a shit and worries 'bout his kids
As they try to undo all the things he did?

Am I the only one who can't take no more
Screamin', "If you don't like it, there's the fuckin' door"
This ain't the freedom we've been fightin' for
It was somethin' more, yeah, it was somethin' more
Am I the only one, willin' to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue, burnin' on the ground
Another statue comin' down in a town near you
Watchin' the threads of Old Glory come undone

I'm not the only one
I can't be the only one

Am I the only one who quits singin' along
Every time they play a Springsteen song?

Am I the only one sittin' here
Still holdin' on, holdin' back my tears
For the ones who paid with the lives they gave
God bless the U.S.A
I'm not the only one, willin' to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue, burnin' on the ground
Another statue comin' down in a town near you
Watchin' the threads of Old Glory come undone

I'm not the only one
I can't be the only one

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Aaron Lewis / Ira Dean / Jeffrey Steele

Am I The Only One lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, 3 Ring Circus Music LLC

 

https://youtu.be/SDx59j2yck0

WE STILL HAVE SOME HEROES

I was at that gathering in which Lt. Col. Long spoke. After her speech a number of us went up to shake her hand. I was second in line with a prepared comment but the person in front of me took so long that I totally forgot what I was going to say. Suddenly I was confronted with her outstretched hand and has I reached forward to shake her hand this is what I spontaneously said: "My dad bragged about shaking the hand of Buffalo Bill and I bragged about shaking the hand of Johnny Cash and Johnny Carson but now I get to shake the hand of a real hero." She stepped forward and gave me a hug and said, "How sweet..." I'll never forget that moment. (By the way, my comment was authentic.)