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Pfizer Vaccine Whistleblower Responds To Motion To Dismiss False Claims Suit

https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-pfizer-vaccine-whistleblower-responds-to-motion-to-dismiss-false-claims-suit_4685709.html
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62995004/65/united-states-of-america-ex-rel-brooks-jackson-v-ventavia-research-group/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pfizer-moves-to-dismiss-lawsuit-from-covid-19-vaccine-trial-citing-prototype-agreement_4481422.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/report-of-problems-with-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-trial-being-investigated-contract-company_4085813.html

Pfizer cannot use the government as a shield from liability for making
false claims about its COVID-19 vaccine, lawyers for a whistleblower
argued in response to Pfizer’s motion to dismiss a False Claims Act
lawsuit.

“Respondents claim fraudulent certifications, false statements,
doctored data, contaminated clinical trials, and firing of
whistleblowers can be ignored based on the theory that they contracted
their way around the fraud,” lawyers for Brook Jackson, who worked as
regional director at one of the clinical trials used to develop the
Pfizer vaccine, wrote in their Aug. 22 response.

“A drug company cannot induce the taxpayers to pay billions of dollars
for a product,” they countered, “that honest data would show poses
more risks than benefits, and that ignores the actual contract and the
law itself.”
A person walks past a Pfizer logo amid the coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York on April 1,
2021. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

Jackson’s lawsuit alleges that Pfizer and two of its subcontractors
violated the False Claims Act by providing bogus clinical trial
results to garner the FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Under federal law, individuals can sue on behalf of the government and
win treble damages if they can prove an individual or company
deliberately lied to the government.

One of Jackson’s attorneys, Warner Mendenhall, told The Epoch Times
that the payout could be as much as $3.3 trillion.

“It would be enough to bankrupt Pfizer,” Mendenhall said.

Mendenhall, whose law firm has won multimillion-dollar False Claims
Act cases, based his estimates on the more than $2 billion the U.S.
government has paid Pfizer for more than 100 million doses of its
COVID-19 vaccine.

In motions to dismiss the lawsuit, Pfizer and its subcontractors
argued that besides Jackson’s allegations being false, the government,
not a private citizen, can initiate a False Claims Act complaint and
that the lawsuit against them should, therefore, be dismissed.

“The Relator may not pursue the claims against Pfizer without the
Government first pursuing them in an administrative proceeding,”
Pfizer’s motion states.

The companies also argued that the FDA was well aware of Jackson’s
claims for at least two years before the lawsuit was filed against
them and that it publicly responded to Jackson’s allegations by
expressing the agency’s “full confidence” in the data used to support
the vaccine.

However, Mendenhall said a false claims action is independent of the
government’s knowledge and that Jackson only has to prove Pfizer and
its subcontractors presented fraudulent information to the FDA.

Jackson was third in command of the clinical trials conducted by
Ventavia Research Group as part of Pfizer’s application for emergency
use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine. She was there for only 18
days before being fired by Ventavia after reporting what she called
“absolute mayhem” and an utter disregard for safety protocols and
federal regulations in developing the vaccine.

Jackson has submitted over 400 exhibits as part of her complaint.
Jackson said that a former Taco’s cashier was among those tasked with
injecting patients with the experimental jab. She alleged that the
trial staff falsified patient signatures on informed consent
paperwork. And she has described a daily mess of unsanitary
conditions.

Jackson also responded for the first time to Pfizer’s characterization
of her as an anti-vaccine, anti-government individual out for money as
vengeance for her firing.

Jackson has worked on a long list of government-run clinical trials
for vaccines and said she is pro-vaccine. She pointed out that her
children have had all their childhood vaccines and that her entire
family gets the flu vaccine yearly. Jackson received the COVID-19
vaccine as soon as it was available and was initially one of its
biggest cheerleaders.

While she is seeking compensation for her termination as part of her
actions against Pfizer and the other companies, Jackson said she plans
to donate any money she receives under her legal action against the
companies to those injured by the vaccine.

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s blood money,” she said. “The world
should be disgusted by what went on here with the shameful actions
behind this dangerous vaccine.”


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