Pfizer paid a $2.3 billion health care fraud settlement, but it was in 2009 and for an anti-inflammatory drug called Bextra. It was more than a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2009, Pfizer was fined $2.3 billion for fraudulent marketing of an anti-inflammatory drug called Bextra. The settlement came more than a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 public health emergency may have ended, but false claims surrounding COVID-19 vaccines persist.that misspells censored said,"We were sensored and called conspiracy theories. Now, here we go!" Underneath was a video of a person identified as Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, who said,"Pfizer has agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the Department of Justice. Within that $2.3 billion is a criminal fine of $1.195 billion which makes it the largest criminal fine in history." Above him are the words,"Medical fraud. $2.3 billion." Words across the video read,"$1.195 billion Pfizer.
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