Answer: Why did Bondi drop the Foreign Corrupt practices Act case against Pfizer?
For context, I originally answered this question on Quora
For context, Bondi shifted all Criminal Division Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resources away from white collar crime involving corporate America to cartels and transnational criminal organizations in a February 5th DOJ memorandum.
The Criminal Division's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit shall prioritize investigations related to foreign bribery that facilitates the criminal operations of Cartels and TCOs, and shift focus away from investigations and cases that do not involve such a connection. Examples of such cases include bribery of foreign officials to facilitate human smuggling and the trafficking of narcotics and firearms.
This was solidified by a February 10 executive order: Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security.
This order not only stops any new FCPA investigations, unless the AG makes an exception, but requires any FCPA investigations started or continued after the order be specifically authorized by the AG. Thus, the FCPA case against Pfizer, which investigated the company bribing officials in Mexico and China for drug approvals using third party consultants, was dropped by default. This was confirmed by their February 27 10K SEC filing, which was the first one since 2020 to not show the ongoing criminal investigation.
Between 2021–25, Bondi provided legal services to Pfizer related to litigation and regulatory work in Florida through her "Of Counsel" position at the law firm Panza, Maurer & Maynard, which is closely tied to the Ballard Partners lobbying firm she was a lobbyist for serving a host of foreign and domestic clients. During this time Pfizer was being sued in Florida for their birth control shot Depo-Provera which has been linked to increased risk of meningiomas after prolonged use. Bondi made about $200K annually at her Of Counsel position at the law firm and over a million in her final year as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners.
As I noted two years ago in a post I have regularly updated, Pfraudster has a long history of false advertising, bribery, fraud and illegal experiments on humans (in the third world) spanning 3 decades. They have at least two felony convictions, the notable distinction of paying the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history and just this year had to pay a $60 million settlement for paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe their drug Nurtec while submitting false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE. Their biggest unindicted crime against humanity is using government to coerce their COVID modRNA transfection on adults and children without informed consent because they lied and obfuscated the truth about its real safety and efficacy. Turning a blind eye to corporate crime is de facto legalization of corporate crime, and is very much something a corporate shill attempting to ensure they have another lucrative lobbyist or consultant gig in four years (in case a Dem wins the next presidential election) would do.
Miami Herald: Bondi Made DOJ Policy. Her Former Client Pfizer Benefited