First Obama Administration Official To See Inside of a Courtroom…500 Deaths

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The first Obama administration official to see the inside of a courtroom, is likely not be the last one.  Corruption has flowed freely in the Obama years with Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch providing the cover up for serious crimes.  Lynch is expected to give Hillary a free pass on the commission of 22 crimes including violations of the Espionage Act.  Now, the first of what could be a long line will be heading to the courtroom over corrupt practices as the head of the FDA.

Margaret A. Hamburg, appointed to head the FDA during Obama’s first term, she colluded with her husband, a hedge fund executive and Johnson and Johnson to hide harsh side effects of Levaquin.  Levaquin has been implicated in the deaths of 500 deaths.  (Possibly as high as 5,000)  The civil suit is asking for $870 million dollars in total damages.  The plaintiffs are, Terry Aston, John Fratti, Linda Martin, David Melvin and Jennifer Wilcox .

It is alleged that as the director of the FDA, Hamburg did knowingly withhold information about the dangers of Levaquin, including warnings to doctors and patients.  At the time doctors and Senators had urged that it either be removed as an approved drug or that further warnings be added to the packaging to warn of it’s dangers.  Hamburg refused and her hedge fund husband made a fortune on J&J stock in his fund.  Had the warning label been changed J&J stock would have dropped and her husband would have suffered some large losses.

From The Daily Caller:

Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators — Democrat Robert Casey and Republican Pat Toomey — also requested more FDA warning labels on Levaquin in 2010, the complaint notes.

Dr. Charles Bennett, oncologist and researcher at the Southern Network on Adverse Reactions at the University of South Carolina, filed two citizens petitions to Hamburg’s FDA in 2014, urging further labeling to warn of possible cell damage and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s associated with Levaquin.

Hamburg also received “hundreds” of emails from people who had severe health problems from taking Levaquin, but did nothing, the complaint claims.

The FDA added some additional warning labels for Levaquin in August 2013 to warn of risk for “possibly permanent nerve damage from antibacterial fluoroquinolone,” but suppressed the drug’s full dangers, the complaint alleges.

Right after Hamburg stepped down as head of the FDA, the FDA amended the warning label on Levaquin to include all of the damaging side effects.

In October of 2013, Hamburg also approved the new drug, Zohydro, despite warnings of high abuse and addiction associated with the drug.  Zohydro is manufactured by  Alkermes.  Hamburgs husband’s hedge fund also had a large holding in Alkermes stock.  What a coinkidink.

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