WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Thursday that his office filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and chief executive officer Albert Bourla for allegedly deceiving the public about the safety of their COVID-19 vaccine despite knowing about the risks.
“Pfizer told Florida families that mass vaccination with their mRNA COVID vaccine was necessary to stop the spread, and that there were no material safety risks,” Uthmeier said in a video posted to X. “CEO Albert Bourla said if you didn’t take it, you were putting the people you love the most at risk. He called people who asked questions criminals. In January 2023, after billions of doses, he said Pfizer had not seen a single safety signal. They spent 10 billion dollars on advertising. They brought in more than 80 billion from the vaccine alone.
“But they didn’t say that they knew about myocarditis in teenagers and young adults,” he continued. “They had reports of thousands of adverse events, including stroke and death. And they had reason to know the shot posed risks to pregnant women and unborn babies in the first trimester. Recently, Senators (Rand) Paul and (Ron) Johnson revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci texted that the second dose quote, ‘theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester.’ The CDC director and the surgeon general agreed. But pregnant women nevertheless were told it was safe. Pfizer hadn’t even tested whether the vaccine stopped transmission.”
“That’s why we filed a lawsuit today against Pfizer and Albert Bourla for their deceptive practices,” the attorney general declared. “What they did was wrong. They assumed Florida families could not be trusted with the truth. Well, we disagree. My office will hold them accountable. Thank you.”
Weeks ago we learned Fauci and the biomedical state knew the COVID jabs were dangerous but hid it from us.
While that investigation continues, today we sued Pfizer for deceptively marketing the products as safe—making billions—while pregnant women were miscarrying their babies… pic.twitter.com/0wQex3rwHo
— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) October 1, 2026
The complaint accuses Pfizer and Bourla of violating the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and seeks damages of up to $10,000 per violation ($15,000 per violation affecting a senior citizen or disabled resident), plus “equitable remedies, including disgorgement for their profiteering.”
As cited by the lawsuit, Bourla declared in a 2021 interview with Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe that critics of his company’s vaccine were “criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives,” and that “hesitancy to vaccinations” was the “only thing” preventing society from returning to pre-pandemic normalcy. The next year, as the shot’s results fell short of the original promises, he revised the goalposts to claim that “two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection,” advocating three doses plus a booster.
In 2021, the British Medical Journal published a report on insider information from Brook Jackson, a former regional director of the medical research company Ventavia, which Pfizer hired in 2020 to conduct research for the company’s COVID shot. Jackson provided the British Medical Journal with evidence of a “host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety (…and) that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.”
According to the report, Ventavia “falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial.” Overwhelmed by numerous problems with the trial data, Jackson filed an official complaint with the FDA. Jackson was fired the same day, and Ventavia later claimed that Jackson did not work on the Pfizer COVID-19 shot trial, but Jackson produced documents proving she had been invited to the Pfizer trial team and given access codes to software relating to the trial.
Last year, however, the second Trump administration (which has eased some vaccine recommendations but not fully renounced the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed that birthed the vaccines) asked the courts to uphold a dismissal of Jackson’s whistleblower lawsuit.