36 Stories Documenting Pfizer’s History of Fraud, Corruption, and Criminality

Summary	Date	Source
Pfizer Pays Up to $215 Million to Settle Claims Over Fracturing Shiley Heart Valves	08/19/1992	UPI
Pfizer Unit Pays $10.75 Million to Settle Charges It Lied to Win FDA Approval of Heart Valve That Killed Hundreds	07/02/1994	The New York Times
Pfizer Pleads Guilty to Food-Additive Price-Fixing, Pays $20 Million	07/19/1999	U.S. Department of Justice
Pfizer Tested Unapproved Antibiotic Trovan on Nigerian Children During 1996 Meningitis Epidemic; 11 Died	12/17/2000	Washington Post
Pfizer Settles First Rezulin Suit After $43 Million Verdict for Woman Whose Liver the Drug Destroyed; Rezulin Blamed for 63 Deaths	12/22/2001	Los Angeles Times
Pfizer Pays $49 Million After Subsidiary Hid Lipitor Discounts to Overcharge Medicaid	10/29/2002	The New York Times
Pfizer Unit Pleads Guilty to Two Felonies, Pays $430 Million for Illegally Promoting Neurontin for Unapproved Uses	05/14/2004	SFGate
Pfizer Admits 1999 Trial Showed Celebrex Heart Risks It Never Published	02/01/2005	The New York Times
Pfizer Units Pay $34.7 Million Over Genotropin Off-Label Marketing and Kickbacks	04/03/2007	FierceBiotech
Experts Find Pfizer Manipulated and Suppressed Neurontin Studies to Push Unapproved Uses	10/08/2008	The New York Times
Pfizer Pays $60 Million to 33 States Over Celebrex, Bextra Off-Label Marketing	10/21/2008	Washington State Attorney General
Pfizer Pays Record $2.3 Billion, Pleads Guilty to Felony for Illegally Marketing Bextra and Other Drugs	09/02/2009	The United States Department of Justice
Pfizer Discloses Paying $20 Million to 4,500 Doctors in Six Months to Speak and Consult on Its Behalf	03/31/2010	The New York Times
Jury Finds Pfizer Violated RICO in Neurontin Marketing, Orders $142 Million to Kaiser	04/01/2010	Bloomberg Law
Blue Cross Suit: Pfizer Flew 5,000 Doctors to Caribbean Resorts With $2,000 Honoraria, Golf and Massages to Push Bextra Off-Label	06/10/2010	CBS News
WikiLeaks Cable: Pfizer Hired Investigators to Dig Up Dirt on Nigeria's Attorney General to Kill Trovan Lawsuit	12/09/2010	The Guardian
Pfizer Pays $75 Million to Settle Nigerian Trovan Drug-Trial Case	08/11/2011	Al Jazeera
Pfizer Pays $896 Million to Settle 6,000 Suits Claiming Prempro Hormone Drugs Caused Breast Cancer	06/19/2012	Bloomberg
SEC: Pfizer Subsidiaries Bribed Government Doctors in Eight Countries to Win Approvals and Prescriptions	08/07/2012	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Pfizer Pays $55 Million Over Wyeth's Off-Label Promotion of Protonix	12/12/2012	U.S. Department of Justice
Pfizer Pays $273 Million to Settle 2,000-Plus Suits Linking Chantix to Suicides and Psychiatric Harm	03/04/2013	Fierce Pharma
Pfizer Unit Wyeth Pleads Guilty, Pays $490.9 Million Over Rapamune Marketing	07/30/2013	U.S. Department of Justice
Pfizer Pays $35 Million to 41 States for Wyeth's Off-Label Rapamune Marketing Using 'Misleading' Data	08/07/2014	Fierce Pharma
Wyeth and Pfizer Pay $784.6 Million for Underpaying Medicaid Rebates on Protonix	04/27/2016	U.S. Department of Justice
Pfizer Pays $486 Million to Settle Shareholder Suit Over Hidden Celebrex, Bextra Risks	08/04/2016	Reuters
UK Watchdog Fines Pfizer Record £84.2M for 2,600% Overnight Price Hike on Epilepsy Drug Sold to NHS	12/07/2016	BBC News
161 Suits Consolidated Alleging Pfizer's Protonix and Other PPIs Caused Kidney Failure Without Adequate Warning	08/02/2017	U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Pfizer Pays $23.85 Million Over Charity Copay Kickback Scheme	05/24/2018	U.S. Department of Justice
Pfizer Sat on Data Suggesting Enbrel Could Cut Alzheimer's Risk 64%	06/04/2019	The Washington Post
Pfizer Forced Governments to Waive Sovereign Immunity, Accept Gag Clauses for Covid Vaccines	10/19/2021	Public Citizen
BMJ: Contractor on Pfizer's Pivotal Covid Vaccine Trial Falsified Data, Unblinded Patients; Whistleblower Fired the Day She Told FDA	11/02/2021	The BMJ
Judge Rejects FDA Bid to Take 75 Years to Release Pfizer Vaccine Licensing Data, Orders 55,000 Pages a Month	01/07/2022	Fierce Pharma
More Deaths, Injuries Revealed in Latest Pfizer Vaccine Trial Document Dump	07/14/2022	The Defender
CMA Re-Imposes £63 Million Fine on Pfizer for Overcharging NHS for Epilepsy Drug	07/21/2022	UK Competition and Markets Authority
Pfizer Pays $59.7 Million to Settle Biohaven Nurtec Kickback Allegations	01/24/2025	U.S. Department of Justice
EU Court Rules Commission Unlawfully Withheld von der Leyen's Texts With Pfizer CEO During Vaccine Deal Talks	05/14/2025	The Irish Times