GSK whistleblower says Glaxo Marketing VP 'Sir' Andrew Witty was deeply involved in massive criminal cover-up

GSK whistleblower says Glaxo Marketing VP 'Sir' Andrew Witty was deeply involved in massive criminal cover-up.


(NaturalNews) The recent landmark ruling against drug giant
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which as we recently reported led to a massive
criminal fine of more than $3 billion and a guilty plea by the company
of committing felony crimes (http://www.naturalnews.com/036499_Glaxo_whistleblower_bribery.html),
was followed by an apology from GSK Vice President of Marketing "Sir"
Andrew Witty for the company's "past" failures. But according to
whistleblower Gregory Thorpe, the apology is meaningless, as Witty had
been working for GSK during the years when the company was proven to
have been engaged in illegal activity, and was more than likely involved
in it.

Not only that, but Thorpe was the one punished by GSK for
coming forward with the truth, a retribution that he has had to sustain
for more than a decade, while Witty was recently "knighted" by the U.K.
government for his supposed service to the British economy and
pharmaceutical industry. If anything, Witty's ridiculous apology is
nothing more than a lame attempt at shifting blame from himself to
supposed "past" scapegoats, all the while claiming that GSK is now a new
company that operates honestly.

Thorpe; however, says that he
and Blair Hamrick were the ones that tried to change GSK for the better
by coming forward with evidence that the pharmaceutical giant was
engaged in a massive criminal enterprise that involved illegally
marketing drugs, bribing doctors, and drugging children. And rather than
change, the corrupt-to-the-core leadership team at GSK, which included
Witty, put Thorpe and his family through years of hell for exposing the
truth.

"[Witty] calls [the corruption] echoes of the past,
another era, another company, yet he was there," wrote Thorpe in the
comment section of a recent article on the GSK scandal published by the
U.K.'s Yorkshire Post (YP). Like most other mainstream reports on
the GSK scandal, YP glosses over Witty's potential involvement in the
GSK scandal, and all the corresponding unanswered questions, and seems
to accept his apology as valid and sufficient.

"Did he
participate? Did he know? What did he know? Why did he not come forward?
Why won't he answer these questions?" asks Thorpe about Witty's likely
participation in the GSK scandal. "I blew the whistle, I was tossed out
after 24 years with the company. I was terminated and retaliated against
for the last 11 years ... GSK covered up their conduct, got caught, and
now Witty is 'sorry'?"

"They took 11 years from me and my family
suffered. I was blackballed in the pharmaceutical business. In the
meantime, Witty was 'knighted.'"

You can read Thorpe's full comments at the bottom of the following article:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

If that comment gets deleted, here's our captured screen shot of it:
http://www.naturalnews.com/images/YorkShirePost-Glaxo-Mistakes-GThorpe.jpg


$3 billion may seem like a lot, but it is nothing for a massive company like GSK

Even
though it represents the largest criminal penalty in pharmaceutical
history, the $3 billion fine levied against GSK is mere pocket change in
the bigger picture of the company's overall financial assets and
revenues. GSK openly admitted to engaging in a longstanding, organized
criminal enterprise that likely cost thousands of people their lives --
does a measly $3 billion fine and a phony apology really serve justice
in light of this?

According to the allegations originally filed
by Thorpe and Hamrick against GSK, which the company has now pleaded
guilty to, GSK's entire marketing strategy involved exploiting and
defrauding government health programs; illegally promoting drugs for
off-label uses that included marketing them to children; and bribing
doctors to promote drugs to patients that did not need them in exchange
for illicit kickbacks.

You can watch the recent interview between
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and whistleblower Blair Hamrick, where
Hamrick explains this and much more, here:
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=1FE6404520AA77A877753AA936722510

Since
Witty held numerous high-level positions at GSK during the time in
which the company was proven to have engaged in the most colossal
criminal conspiracy yet unveiled in the pharmaceutical industry, he had
to have, at the very least, been aware of what was going on at the
company -- and more than likely, he was actively involved in it. But
either way, Witty did not come forward and speak up about GSK's crimes,
nor did he defend Thorpe and Hamrick in trying to turn the company
around by exposing its corruption.

Instead, Thorpe and Hamrick
made the decision to do the right thing by themselves, and consequently
suffered years of torment by pharmaceutical big-wigs like Witty that
continued to hide their company's evil deeds from the public. And now
that the truth has been exposed in plain sight, Witty and his company
are getting off scot-free with a canned apology and a relatively small,
at least for GSK, financial penalty?

Be sure to read the full NaturalNews report on the GSK scandal here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036499_Glaxo_whistleblower_bribery.html


Source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/036610_GSK_Andrew_Witty_cover-up.html