Texas COVID-19 vaccine investigation could stick it to Big Pharma execs
Investigation headed by Texas AG Ken Paxton
NEW YORK POST
It’s sickening how much Big Pharma bosses have profited from the COVID-19 pandemic, after overselling billions of people around the world on the wondrous qualities of their vaccines.
Moderna chief executive Stéphane Bancel made nearly $400 million last year on his stock options and still owns a reported $2.8 billion of shares in the company plus his salary and perks.
His Pfizer counterpart, Albert Bourla, pocketed a $33 million salary last year, on top of the millions in Pfizer shares he sold.
But before they ride off into the sunset to count their filthy lucre, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plans to investigate whether their companies misrepresented the efficacy and safety of the vaccines and manipulated vaccine trial data.
On Monday, Paxton will launch an investigation into potential violations of his state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, he has revealed exclusively in The Post.
He also wants to know whether the pharmaceutical giants engaged in gain-of-function research and misled the public about it.
Immune … to laws
The Texas investigation could have widespread implications for the legal immunity granted to manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccines and open the door to class-action lawsuits from people injured by the mRNA jabs, amid reports of rare but serious adverse effects.
“The catastrophic effects of the pandemic and subsequent interventions forced on our country and citizens deserve intense scrutiny, and we are pursuing any hint of wrongdoing to the fullest,” Paxton said in a statement.
“This pandemic was a deeply challenging time for Americans. If any company illegally took advantage of consumers during this period or compromised people’s safety to increase their profits, they will be held responsible.
Paxton is probing potential violations of Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. AP Photo/Nick Wagner, File
“If public health policy was developed on the basis of flawed or misleading research, the public must know.”
He says Big Pharma had a “vested interest” in the success of its COVID-19 vaccines because of the record profits they drove.
“This vested interest … combined with reports about the alarming side effects of vaccines, demands aggressive investigation.”
The existence of federal vaccine mandates “means this investigation into the scientific and ethical basis on which public health decisions were made is of major significance.”
Paxton will demand the companies hand over documents relating to the “decision-making behind pandemic interventions forced on the public, especially when a profit motive or political pressure may have compromised Americans’ health and safety.”
Checking Big Pharma
The Texas investigation comes on the heels of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ call for a grand jury investigation into “crimes and wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
DeSantis has appointed independent experts such as Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya to a new Public Health Integrity Committee to examine “adverse events from mRNA vaccines.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has called for a grand jury investigation into potential crimes related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images
“The Biden administration and pharmaceutical corporations continue to push widespread distribution of mRNA vaccines on the public, including children as young as 6 months old, through relentless propaganda while ignoring real-life adverse events,” DeSantis office said in a statement in December.
“These risks include coagulation disorders, acute cardiac injuries, Bell’s palsy, encephalitis, appendicitis, and shingles.”
DeSantis and his state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo maintain that, while the vaccines were effective in protecting older and vulnerable people, risks for younger people may have outweighed the benefits.
Meanwhile, author Alex Berenson last week sued President Biden, other federal officials and Pfizer bigwigs — including $33 million boss Bourla and board member Scott Gottlieb — for “conspiring to violate my Constitutional rights.”
Alex Berenson is suing President Biden, federal officials and Pfizer executives over getting censored on Twitter. Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
A shot in the arm
Berenson has been the tip of the spear when it comes to holding Big Pharma accountable.
He sued Twitter and forced it to hand over documents showing that senior Biden administration officials were behind his ban from Twitter in August 2021.
According to Berenson’s lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, Gottlieb, the former Trump FDA commissioner-turned-Pfizer board member, allegedly pressured Twitter to de-platform Berenson for tweeting that the mRNA injections don’t stop transmission of the virus, a fact that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted in testimony to Congress last week.
In other words, claims that vaccine mandates would stop the spread of the virus were wildly exaggerated.
Header featured image (edited) credit: Shot being given/AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
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Every thinking person knows by now the shots did not deliver as promised. They were short-lasting, did not prevent spread, were damaging to some, lethal to others and at best seemed benign to the rest. Meanwhile the virus just ran its course like all viruses do. I think it’s fair to say the masking, distancing and vaccinations did more harm than good. But some profited mightily off what could be fair to say were the single worst mass health measures foisted upon humanity. WHO, FDA, NIH and their legions turned Covid into a hot mess.