Pfizer Whistleblower Gets Huge Reward

[falcon]

Good man. Pfizer had been caught three times by the feds, three times Pfizer promised "change." The fourth time was a charm.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Pfizer....html?x=0&.v=1

The Gulf War veteran and former Pfizer sales representative will earn more than $51.5 million as a result of his whistleblower lawsuit against the world's biggest drugmaker and the record penalty the company must pay the U.S. government for its massive marketing transgressions.

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Kopchinski, appalled by Pfizer's tactics in selling the pain drug Bextra, filed a "qui tam" lawsuit in 2003, sparking federal and state probes that led to Wednesday's agreement by the company to pay $2.3 billion in civil and criminal penalties and plead guilty to a felony charge for promoting Bextra and 12 other drugs for unapproved uses and doses.

"In the Army I was expected to protect people at all costs," Kopchinski said in a statement. "At Pfizer I was expected to increase profits at all costs, even when sales meant endangering lives.

[Fieldmouse]

Biggest bunch of BS. But hey, he get's his doesn't he? The last thing we would want are more drugs entering into the market place at cheaper costs.

[falcon]

Biggest bunch of BS. But hey, he get's his doesn't he? The last thing we would want are more drugs entering into the market place at cheaper costs.

Yep, how dare that awful salesman; interfering with the God given right of a pharmaceutical company to maim and kill folks.

BTW: The administration of your Bush hero initiated this lawsuit against Pfizer.

[elgallo114]

Originally Posted by Fieldmouse

Biggest bunch of BS. But hey, he get's his doesn't he? The last thing we would want are more drugs entering into the market place at cheaper costs.

How is this BS? Do you just think that he did it for the money? Or that he lied? Or that Pfizer was not complicit in any wrong doing.

[Fieldmouse]

Originally Posted by elgallo114

How is this BS? Do you just think that he did it for the money? Or that he lied? Or that Pfizer was not complicit in any wrong doing.

Not complicit in any wrong doing. It's a big over reaching of our Federal Government.