Johnson & Johnson Executive Chairman Quietly Resigned
Trying to avoid the angry mob fallout, they resigned on the quiet last year
Barely reported even within those exposing pharmaceutical fraud, the Executive Chairman (not to be confused with CEO) of Johnson & Johnson, Alex Gorsky, quietly resigned back in January 2022.
The resignation occurred shortly after an investigation back in June 2021 that was conducted by the House Oversight committee, finding the manufacturing site Emergent had cross-contaminated both Johnson&Johnson and AstraZeneca shots.
A mind boggling 75 million Johnson&Johnson shots had to be destroyed due to contamination issues. Enough single doses for 22% of the US population.
Quoting from the report:
In February 2021, Emergent contaminated millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine with ingredients from AstraZeneca’s vaccine and was forced to destroy up to 15 million tainted doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine immediately, and 60 million more after additional testing.
This wasn’t an ‘oops, my bad’ kind of moment either, it was a manufacturer that had a history of problems, multiple warnings, which were, of course, ignored:
Our investigation has revealed that Emergent was warned multiple times that serious manufacturing problems and deficient controls at its Bayview facility in Baltimore, Maryland, could lead to the contamination of vaccines manufactured at the facility
All on Alex Gorsky’s watch. It wasn’t the only contamination scandal on his watch.
Asbestos Baby Powder
Baby talcum powder is typically used by mothers to help dry their baby after baths. Most people, thinking that it is safe for babies, think it must be safe for adults, and also use it, such as under arms and in nether regions.
And yet, Johnson&Johnson had known for decades that asbestos was in their powder. A powder aimed at babies.
They could have removed it from their product at any time. It was not essential. It was a contaminant. They could have recalled the product, issued a warning, stopped the product entirely if there was no viable solution. But they didn’t.
Money Madness
But they just did not want to give up money in order to save lives. Your lives mean less to them than money. They’d rather kill people with a toxic product than give up cash. Instead, they lobbied the government to lower standards, lied to regulators and lied to the public.
[…] many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.
The documents also depict successful efforts to influence U.S. regulators’ plans to limit asbestos in cosmetic talc products and scientific research on the health effects of talc.
It took nearly 40 years, but finally financial matters caught up. Pity jail didn’t.
Suited And Jackbooted
In Febuary 2021, the same month as the Emergent contamination scandal, Johnson&Johnson found themselves facing 25,000 lawsuits over the asbestos in their baby talcum powder.
Johnson&Johnson tried to use sleight-of-hand tactics to say they couldn’t be sued as they were filing for bankruptcy. The judge denied their blatant efforts to weasel out of compensating victims.
Being the child killing psychopaths they were, Johnson&Johnson tried another trick to weasel out of losing any money to the victims they gave cancer to over their asbestos harms.
They wanted to spin off the lawsuit into a bankrupt subsidiary of Johnson&Johnson in order to minimise their losses from a major fallout.
The bankruptcy judge denied their motion, pointing out they have to be broke first before they can file bankruptcy. What do you mean Johnson&Johnson don’t get to keep their ill-gotten gains from killing people with toxins? The judges were clearly on the ball that day. No surprise, then, that Alex Gorsky opted to abandon ship.
However, Johnson&Johnson seem to have a knack for contamination scandals (perhaps they should be called Contamination&Contamination?), and Gorsky wasn’t the first to abandon ship during a contamination scandal…
Colleen Goggins Quit During The Motrin Contamination Scandal
Motrin is yet another children’s product. Supposedly they’re pain relievers for children.
Back in 2010, Johnson&Johnson’s worldwide chairwoman Colleen Goggins testified to Congress that she was supposedly unaware that Johnson&Johnson had secretly bought all Motrin from stores, rather than issuing a recall notice for Motrin due to contamination.
She tried to insist J&J weren’t trying to be deceptive, before promptly ‘retiring’ from the company. As if anyone believes that crock. Notices were handed out to the incognito purchasers to not mention the word recall:
Liar&Liar don’t like doing Recalls&Recalls, it seems. In 2013 they were forced to issue a recall notice for Motrin, reporting plastic contamination in the products. It was the same year they paid criminal fines for fraud and kickback to the tune of $2.2 billion, point one billion less than Pfizer.
Is there a product or service they don’t contaminate?
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