Top Mitch McConnell Staffer Leads Pfizer's Lobbying Charge to Protect Vaccine Patent and Block Bill Holding Big Pharma Accountable for Fraud.

Pfizer has hired the former policy director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Hazen Marshall, as a lobbyist to support the Big Pharma firm's efforts to shut down amendments to the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021.

Lobbyist filings reveal Pfizer recently retained the D.C.-based Marshall & Popp to fight amendments to a law that currently does little to protect the public against fraud by firms like Pfizer.

Waiving protections on the COVID-19 vaccination patent would force Pfizer to give up their essential wealth funnel from the federal government.

In 2009, Pfizer "Agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products," according to the DOJ. This record settlement stemmed from a lawsuit brought against Pfizer by six whistleblowers.

Six whistleblowers brought the lawsuit against Pfizer via the False Claims Act, culminating in the enormous fraud settlement.

In 2020, Pfizer entered into a $1.95 billion agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense to produce 100 million doses of the notorious COVID-19 vaccine.

As the government continues to pay Pfizer despite past activities, the fraud at their testing labs may not be considered "Material" under the 2016 ruling.

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