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I think the largest fine here, the $3.75 billion fine for the American Home Products diet drug in 2002 (https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker...), is mis-attributed to Pfizer. American Home Products became Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, who were acquired by Pfizer in 2009, 7 years after this fine.

Pfizer weren’t involved with them in 2002, so I don’t see how this five can be reasonably attributed to Pfizer.

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I think that depends a bit on how many of the folks tainted by the AHP violation are still working at Pfizer. If Pfizer is made up of a bunch of companies that had violations themselves before acquisition, that's probably reflected in the current company culture.

Not to mention that acquiring a company that’s been massively fined for these reasons is a statement in itself. (Statement being somewhere between “we don’t give a shit” and “good job, even we didn’t think of that”)

I was thinking more along the lines of "this company just went on sale"

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