Wow. Talk about selling yourself out here! Brook Jackson was a contractor hired to do the Pfizer covid trials. She has serious concerns about patient safety, data protection, protocols, etc and two weeks into her job, she whistleblew against Pfizer and their contractors saying they were fraudulently manipulating data, falsifying trial data, and the trial itself had very little oversight, no medical certifications and minimal medical oversight, and the trial personnel had little to no training. They were not tracking data in a timely fashion, yet documented that they had. They did not protect the blinded study, unblinded it prematurely, the allegations list goes on and on.
So what was Pfizer’s response to the lawsuit? Whoa, we are NOT responsible for this and we are seeing to have this dismissed because: Under the False Claims Act, whistleblowers can be rewarded for confidentially disclosing fraud that results in a financial loss to the federal government.
However, a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded the scope of a legal principle known as “materiality” resulted in a series of federal court decisions in which fraud cases brought under the False Claims Act were dismissed.
As interpreted by the Supreme Court, if the government continued paying a contractor despite the contractor’s fraudulent activity, the fraud was not considered “material” to the contract.
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.
“Pfizer claims they can get away with fraud as long as the government would write them a check despite knowing about the fraud,” attorney Robert Barnes said.
Did you get all that? Pfizer is alleging that because the GOVERNMENT KNEW about the fraud, and kept PAYING them as the contractors, that the case should be dismissed. Under the False Claims Act.
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