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Study: Big Pharma’s Bribery Schemes

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2026/04/study-finds-all-major-pharmaceutical-companies-implicated-in-bribery-schemes/

Study Finds All Major Pharmaceutical Companies Implicated in Bribery Schemes

by Carolyn Hendler, JD

Published 

A study published in February 2026 in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is the first to compile decades of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) enforcement records into a single analysis. Researchers Kohler, Khan, and Bowra reviewed OECD Working Group on Bribery reports from 1999 through early 2025 and found that virtually every major pharmaceutical company operating globally has been implicated in at least one foreign bribery scheme.1

The underlying cases were drawn from U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions documented over many years. Together, they reveal a pattern of corruption spanning dozens of countries and totaling more than one billion dollars in penalties.

Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Among Vaccine Companies Implicated

The researchers identified 21 investigations involving 19 pharmaceutical companies and numerous subsidiaries across five OECD member nations. The United States accounted for 14 of those investigations, followed by Germany and Denmark with three each, and Greece and Italy with one each.2 Among the companies publicly named were Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Teva, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, SciClone, BioTest, and Nordion.3

The study defines bribery as “the offering, promising, giving, accepting or soliciting of an advantage as an inducement for an action which is illegal, unethical or a breach of trust.”4

The authors explain:

… pharmaceutical company bribes and other financial inducements can distort prescribing and compromise regulations that are designed to ensure drug safety and efficacy. More generally, pharmaceutical industry corruption affects patient safety and health care resource allocation worldwide.5

Over One Billion Dollars in Sanctions Paid Out by Companies

The implicated companies paid a combined $1,111,225,911 in sanctions. That total included $586,263,414 in fines, $447,237,274 in returned profits, and $77,545,872 in prejudgment interest.6 Despite the scale of the financial penalties, not one company admitted wrongdoing in any of the 21 cases.7

How the Bribery Schemes Operated

The study found that bribery schemes were not isolated acts by low-level employees acting on their own. Rather, senior executives and regional directors within the drug companies approved and, in some cases, directed the payments. Subsidiaries, shell companies, and third-party vendors were used to route payments and give them the appearance of legitimacy. Twelve of the 19 investigations found that subsidiaries were used specifically to conceal bribery operations. The bribes were used to secure regulatory approvals, influence prescribing patterns, and drive drug sales in markets around the world.8

Bribes Hidden in Distributor Discounts

A second pattern identified in the study involved pharmaceutical companies granting unusually steep discounts to distributors. The distributors then used the excess funds to pay bribes to physicians and government officials. Companies falsely recorded the discounts as legitimate marketing or sales expenses, concealing the payments in their books.

The arrangement had a direct consequence for patients. When physicians received payments tied to a particular drug, their prescribing decisions were driven by financial benefit rather than patient need.10

Novartis Vietnam worked with a distributor that paid bribes directly to healthcare providers and reimbursed up to 50 percent of those costs through credit notes. Teva Mexico funneled cash to physicians through a Copaxone distributor and mislabeled the payments as revenue reductions. Eli Lilly’s Brazilian subsidiary granted discounts of 17 to 19 percent instead of the standard 10 percent, concealing a six percent bribe to state officials within the markup.11

Novartis

Between 2012 and 2015, a Novartis subsidiary in Greece bribed employees at state-owned hospitals and clinics to increase prescriptions for Lucentis, a drug used to treat macular degeneration. Physicians were paid more than $5,000 per event attended. Internal Novartis documents described the arrangement as a return on investment and tied physician payments to their prescription volumes.12

In South Korea, a Novartis subsidiary channeled more than $16.3 million through third-party medical journals as improper payments to physicians. In June 2020, Novartis and its subsidiaries agreed to pay $345 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Novartis Hellas SACI paid a criminal penalty of $225 million and entered a three-year deferred prosecution agreement.13

Johnson & Johnson

In Greece, Poland, and Romania, Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries and agents used slush funds, sham contracts, and offshore accounts in the Isle of Man to reward physicians and hospital administrators. The drug company was also accused of paying kickbacks in Iraq.

Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than $48 million to resolve SEC charges and $21.4 million to resolve parallel DOJ criminal charges. However, the large pharmaceutical company did not admit or deny the allegations.14

Pfizer

Pfizer subsidiaries in Italy and Russia were accused by the SEC in 2012 of paying bribes over approximately a decade to foreign government officials. They paid the bribes in order to secure regulatory and formulary approvals, boost sales, and increase prescriptions.

After voluntarily disclosing the misconduct in 2004, Pfizer agreed to pay $26.3 million to the SEC to resolve the charges. Its subsidiary Pfizer HCP paid a separate $15 million criminal penalty to the DOJ. Like the other big pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer did not admit or deny the allegations.15

Teva

Teva Pharmaceuticals made illicit payments to government officials in Russia, Ukraine, and Mexico to increase market share, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC. Those payments generated $214 million in illegal profits. Teva agreed to pay $283 million in criminal fines to the DOJ and $236 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest to the SEC, for a combined total of $519 million.16

GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline’s subsidiary in China was fined CN¥3 billion by Chinese authorities after an investigation found it had bribed physicians to increase drug sales. It was the largest fine imposed by a Chinese court at the time. The Securities and Exchange Commission later resolved Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges against the company for the same conduct, settling for $20 million.17

AstraZeneca and Sanofi

AstraZeneca paid $5.5 million to the SEC to resolve charges that it made improper payments to government-controlled healthcare providers in China and Russia.18 Sanofi settled Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges with the SEC for $25.2 million in 2018. The agency found that employees and agents in multiple countries made improper payments to foreign officials, including physicians, between 2011 and 2015.19

Zero Admissions of Wrongdoing

Across all 21 investigations spanning more than two decades of OECD monitoring, no pharmaceutical company admitted any wrongdoing. Companies paid the over one billion dollars in combined penalties and moved forward. The study’s authors concluded that bribery in the pharmaceutical sector is not an isolated event but a systemic and recurring feature of how some of the world’s largest drug companies have operated in markets across the globe.20 21

The authors suggest that the wide-spread pattern of bribery across the pharmaceutical industry is indicative of institutional corruption. Both the legal and illegal acts of bribery by big pharma “pervert institution’s function under conditions that may promote personal benefit” and serve to undermine the public.

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Washington Joins WHO Pandemic Orchestration & Surveillance Network ‘GOARN’ – Citing Bird Flu as Justification

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/washington-joins-who-pandemic-orchestration?

Washington Joins WHO Pandemic Orchestration and Surveillance Network ‘GOARN’—Citing Bird Flu as Justification

Follows California, Illinois, Colorado, and New York City’s entry into same transnational WHO outbreak coordination system.
Jon Fleetwood
Apr 16, 2026

Governor Bob Ferguson announced this month that Washington State is now part of the World Health Organization Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN), an international syndicate of “public health agencies, national governments, academic centers, laboratories, and response organizations focused on rapidly detecting and responding to public health emergencies,” according to a press release from the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA).

Washington joins California, Illinois, Colorado, and New York City by entering GOARN.

According to WSNA, Washington’s public health leaders will fall in line with the WHO’s:

  • global outbreak early-warning alerts, meaning real-time surveillance tied into an international detection system
  • technical collaboration and support during major public health events, meaning coordinated response across jurisdictions
  • international training, exercises, and best-practice exchanges, meaning standardized response protocols
  • and coordinated outbreak response support, meaning integrated deployment during declared emergencies.

Congress has already confirmed that the WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic “was an abject failure” and that the WHO’s “newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.”

This means Washington’s decision comes despite federal findings that the WHO mismanaged the last pandemic and is advancing new agreements that could expand its influence over future responses.

You can contact Gov. Ferguson’s office here to voice your opposition to Washington’s integration into a WHO-linked outbreak surveillance and response system and demand accountability for aligning state public health infrastructure with failed global coordination mechanisms.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Take away: states are bypassing the federal government’s move to remain sovereign and not under the umbrella of unelected globalists like the international WHO; however, it’s all clear as mud as there still remains a legal path for U.S./WHO collaboration due to Congress authorizing up to 60 U.S. Public Health Service employees assigned to work through and with WHO-funded programs, alongside USAID and UNICEF—entities closely integrated with the same global health governance framework.

In global health policy, “child survival activities” is a broad WHO umbrella that routinely includes vaccination campaigns, disease surveillance, outbreak response, and health-system operations, meaning the statute authorizes U.S. personnel to work inside WHO-funded public-health infrastructure—not narrow, child-only care—despite the formal withdrawal.

Congress also enacted legislation allocating at least $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding to finance pandemic and outbreak preparedness in fiscal year 2026—despite no declared pandemic and no formal emergency authorization.

The funding is contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 7148), which Trump signed into law on February 3, 2026, after the bill passed both chambers of Congress and was presented to the White House earlier that day.  Source

Influenza is the only purported virus explicitly named in the statute.

It’s important to note that Sayer Ji’s beautifully laid out article, “20 Year Architecture Behind Pandemic As a Business Model With Bill Gates at the Center,” gives the whole bloody picture.

All of this should feel like déjà vu to anyone reading this website, because it’s been done before, like a bad movie script that keeps being recycled, and now states are making global tyranny even easier to achieve!

Globally orchestrated
Problem, Reaction, Solution

It’s a win, win for the powerful who gain financially.

Important quote:

The same architects of the last plandemic are priming the world for the next one — the inevitable consequence of a world that never held them accountable.

 

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Pendulum Ramming Back Against Those Who Stigmatize the Unvaccinated

**UPDATE**

A German court has ordered BioNTech to hand over 32 internal safety, toxicity, and manufacturing records on ‘Comirnaty’ COVID injection affirming injured patients’ right to access data, forcing disclosure. While this is not a final liability ruling, the decision affirms that individuals claiming harm are entitled to access manufacturer’s data.

Pfizer’s former chief toxicologist admits at the German COVID inquiry that the shots ‘should never have been approved.’

According to author and sociology professor Evelyn L. Bush, Ph.D.,  governments and media created a new pariah class: the unvaccinated.  Dr. Bush shows in her new downloadable book that detrimental, fear-driven policies divided families, workplaces, and communities during the COVID era.

Purposefully weaponized stigmatism was used to engineer the population’s participation in an ongoing colossal clinical trial using a completely new mRNA-based ‘vaccine‘ technology that continues to be proven to be dangerous and deadly and cancer causing.

The FREE book reveals the deep human cost of institutional power and gives valuable insights into the mechanics of social control, censorship, and scapegoating so by understanding the patterns, we can resist them better in the future and protect human dignity.

History shows that stigma is rarely accidental — and its consequences are far-reaching and are never temporary.

Pushing back against the tyranny, a Minnesota bill moves to ban medical discrimination by employers, hospitals, governments, and businesses against people for refusing vaccines, RNA, and gene-based products.  The bill shifts legal power away from institutions and back to individuals through enforceable protections and financial liability for violations.

The legislation includes a supremacy clause stating:

“the provisions of this section prevail over any conflicting provisions in general law”

Which means the protections would take precedence over existing laws that conflict with its provisions, unless explicitly exempted.

The bill also includes not only religious exemptions but personal, ethical, or philosophical objections.

What the bill lacks; however, is prohibiting institutions from requiring medical interventions in the first place and it only includes those 18 years of age or older – leaving school, daycare, and pediatric intervention policies outside the bill’s scope. The bill also does not explicitly address whether its protections apply during a public health emergency or executive health orders.

Tennessee lawmakers have also moved to ban forced vaccination and other medical treatments.  They, however, have made it clear with the Constitutional amendment that this holds true even during emergencies.

Former Cleveland Clinic Medical Director Dr. Daniel Neides fights back tears, apologizing to all his ‘vaccinated’ patients because he didn’t provide informed consent. He shares that the only thing doctors are taught about vaccines is to memorize the vaccine schedule in order to pass the medical exam.

Dr. Kelly Victory stated the entire COVID debacle could not have occurred…

“If all physicians had stood shoulder to shoulder with me when I was… suffering the slings and arrows very early on and spoken the truth, this would not have happened. It was precisely because they got physicians on board and willing to continue this that it happened.”

He’s not alone.  Go here to watch a video showing doctor after doctor expressing the limited training they receive about ‘vaccines,’ yet despite appropriate training and information on potential side-effects and injury, doctors often use wellness visits to coerce vaccination.

Doctors never hear:

Federally funded insurance companies are still giving doctors kickbacks for vaccinating patients.

Dr. Joseph Varon also recently wrote a paper titled: When War Teaches Medicine, demonstrating that while good innovations are sometimes forged in crisis, history is replete with examples that innovation can also occur under evil conditions where inhuman treatments and experimentation are state sanctioned, systematic, and organized.  This was experienced during the COVID era and many paid the ultimate price. The deadly hospital protocols alone caused nearly half a million excess deaths in 2020.  Nurses have formed their own network due to the brutally inhumane hospital protocols.

History records medical atrocities such as experiments on prisoners, often without anesthesia, consent or even scientific justification, committed during WWII under the Nazi regime.  In the U.S., the Tuskegee Syphilis study that spanned 4 decades deliberately left African-American men with syphilis untreated even when effective therapy became available.  Then, there’s the recently declassified documents linking Lyme disease to a bioweaponization program where ticks were stuffed with different pathogens and then purposely distributed via airplane.

The recent COVID era allowed ALL to experience this type of institutionalized evil.  Certain individuals were told they were ‘essential,’ and allowed to function, work, get a paycheck, and experience privileges that the ‘non-essential’ people were not. The unvaccinated were blamed for a ‘pandemic’ that wasn’t any worse than a normal flu season. Even German media admits the unvaxxed are ‘winners’ and has demanded the government to apologize for its false claims.

It was amazing to see so many people accept fear-based propaganda without a shred of scientific logic and without pause, despite all the years of being bombarded with education and talk of racism, sexism, and other isms.  Somehow, it became acceptable to mistreat those who questioned the tyranny and/or didn’t swallow the propaganda.

The good news: ‘vaccine’ skepticism in the U.S. is now widespread according to a Politico Poll.

Also, many researchers are taking it upon themselves to comb through studies to point out the many flaws used to take away our freedoms and to push a narrative. The word is out: public health, research and scientific journals are bought out and not to be trusted at face value. Researchers are also following the money and showing the web of deceit behind the curtain that’s being used to control the public.

For those paying attention, the results are in: masks never worked, social distancing was a farce, public figures took to bribing folks with french fries and burgers to get an experimental gene therapy never before used in humans, while there were effective, safe, cheap treatments for COVID that were maligned and even banned by our public health ‘authorities’ and professional medical groups.

Meanwhile, the experimental shots have caused more damage than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS yet are still on the market!

They said THALIDOMIDE was safe

They said CIGARETTES were safe

They said ASBESTOS was safe

They said MERCURY was safe

They said DDT was safe

They said GLYPHOSATE was safe

They said the COVID shot was safe

NOW THEY SAY 5G IS SAFE…..

But, the pendulum is beginning to swing.

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Twenty-Three Years of Unnecessary Suffering: How the Medical Establishment Got Away With Maligning Hormones

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/twenty-three-years-of-unnecessary?

Twenty-Three Years of Unnecessary Suffering: What the Women’s Health Initiative Actually Showed — and What the Medical Establishment Did With It

If you are a woman 40 to 50, your choice to pay attention to or ignore this information will – not may, WILL dramatically impact your quality of life.
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
Apr 12, 2026

On November 10, 2025, the United States Food and Drug Administration quietly did something it almost never does: it reversed itself.

The FDA announced the removal of what it described as “misleading warnings” on hormone replacement therapy, stating in language that should be read carefully by every woman over forty in this country that “estrogen is a key hormone for women’s health where every single part of a woman’s body depends on estrogen to operate at its best — including the brain, bones, heart, and muscles.”

That sentence took twenty-three years to come out of a federal regulatory agency. Those twenty-three years have a body count — not of deaths from hormone therapy, but of preventable fractures, preventable cardiovascular events, preventable cognitive decline, and an incalculable accumulation of unnecessary suffering by women who were told, on the authority of science, to stop their treatment. Or to never start it.

The story of how this happened is the kind of story this publication exists to tell. It involves a landmark study whose design was unsuited to the question it was used to answer, relative risk inflation dressed up as settled science, a medical establishment that moved faster to alarm than to correct, and a generation of women who paid the cost.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Hormones are huge.  Huge.

Besides helping virtually everything physiologically, they are also drivers of behavior (or lack thereof). However, due to all the xenoestrogens in plastics, pesticides, and personal care products, our society is typically estrogen high – and the wrong, synthetic form at that, disrupting hormonal balance and affecting health negatively.  Just watch a film made in the 70’s or 80’s and then compare the bodies in it to the average population now.

BTW: I’m not a fan at all of equine estrogen due to the horrible way it is made, and I’m not a big fan of synthetic hormones created in a lab often from animal sources (unless for rare special circumstances).  In my opinion, bioidentical hormones that are chemically identical to the hormones naturally produced in the human body are more bioavailable as well as safer.

The sad truth is that the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) was stopped early due to a small but statistically significant increase in breast cancer, cardiovascular events, and stroke in the hormone group compared to the placebo group.  From that point on, hormones were branded as killers and avoided like the plague by mainstream doctors.

Weiler points out the following problems with the study:

  • the average age of participants in the trial was 63
  • many had pre-existing cardiovascular risk
  • many were put on hormone therapy for the first time years AFTER their estrogen collapsed

Further, there’s the sticky problem of absolute risk – a problem  discussed regarding the COVID jabs as well, and a widely used technique to get a study to say what you want it to say.

The absolute risk increase for breast cancer in the combined hormone group — the number that actually describes what happened to real women in real terms — was approximately eight additional cases per ten thousand women per year, compared to placebo. That is a relative risk increase that translates, in absolute terms, to a risk that is smaller than the baseline absolute risk increase associated with drinking one alcoholic beverage per day, or with being sedentary, or with being obese.

Weiler further adds that while breast cancer is devastating and must be included in the conversation:

relative risk, stripped of its denominator, is a rhetorical instrument. When the baseline rate is small, a relative risk of 1.26 can be presented as a twenty-six percent increase in breast cancer — which is how it was widely framed — or as eight additional cases per ten thousand women per year in a specific, older population — which is what it actually meant. These are not equivalent framings. The first drives panic. The second permits informed decision-making.

The risks became headlines but the significant benefits in reduced hip fractures, colorectal cancer, and relief from vasomotor symptoms became the footnote.  This is how you rig a study.

Researchers now understand that  there is a critical window regarding HRT and the benefit-risk profile is different depending on when it is initiated.

I short, women who begin HRT within a ten year window of the onset of menopause (or before age 60) have cardiovascular outcomes that are neutral to favorable.  Women who start HRT a decade or more after menopause show a less favorable profile because the vascular and neural adaptation to estrogen withdrawal have already occurred.

Who benefits from this travesty?
Big Pharma of course

Women who stopped taking HRT switched over to individual pharmacological agents targeting individual symptoms – and there’s a bevy of them!  Since the systemic solution of hormone therapy that would have solved all the symptoms was maligned, Big Pharma now had a collection of targeted interventions bringing in separate revenue streams!

Weiler then drives the message home by showing the HRT saga is not an isolated event but a documented pattern of what happens when:

a large, expensive, federally funded study  conducted on a population that does not match the clinical target using a formulation or intervention that does not match the clinical practice being evaluated, producing findings that are communicated in relative rather than absolute terms, and whose findings are translated into guidelines and clinical practice with a speed and thoroughness that is never matched by the subsequent corrections.

And this, right here, is why I’m against ANY large, expensive, federally funded study for Lyme disease – and for the same reasons.

The WHI results changed clinical practice within months but took a decade and a half to change – yet, are still not uniformly reflected in practice.  

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FREE Homeopathy Film April 10-16, 2026
Introducing Homeopathy - The Film
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