Consumer investigator Jim Strickland exposed last year mounting evidence of the drug Levaquin’s dangerous side effects.
The lawsuit says while Johnson & Johnson made the drug, former Food And Drug Administration commissioner Margaret Hamburg’s husband made money off J & J stock.
“The head of the FDA owning, either directly or indirectly, substantial stock in that drug company? The conflict is insurmountable,” said Decatur pharmacuetical watchdog attorney Roger Orlando.