Breaking: Children’s Health Defense Hits AAP With RICO Suit Over Fraudulent Vaccine Safety Claims
The following was forwarded from Mary Holland, CEO of the Children’s Health Defense, and is written
In a lawsuit filed today in federal court, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and five other plaintiffs accused the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) of running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud American families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule.
The suit alleges that the AAP violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) by making “false and fraudulent” claims about the safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) childhood immunization schedule — while receiving funding from vaccine manufacturers and providing financial incentives to pediatricians who achieve high vaccination rates.
“For too long, the AAP has been held up on a pedestal, as if it were a font of science and integrity,” said CHD CEO Mary Holland. “Sadly, that’s not the case.”
Instead, Holland said, the AAP “is a front operation in a racketeering scheme involving Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Media, ready at every turn to put profits above children’s health. It’s time to face facts and see what the AAP is really about,” Holland said.
According to the complaint, the AAP has worked to conceal the findings of studies that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) — now known as the National Academy of Medicine — published in 2002 and 2013.
The IOM called for more research after concluding that no studies had ever been conducted to compare the health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
The AAP’s conduct constitutes a pattern of fraud under RICO, a statute often used to prosecute organized crime, said Rick Jaffe, attorney for the plaintiffs.
Jaffe told The Defender that while previous lawsuits “challenged individual vaccines or sought compensation for individual injuries,” this “is a fraud case following the playbook that took down Big Tobacco.”
“The AAP’s actions parallel those of Big Tobacco, which misled the public regarding the safety of its products,” Jaffe said. “Tobacco created false uncertainty to manufacture doubt. The AAP did the inverse — it created false certainty to foreclose questions. Both used the trappings of science to prevent actual science.”
CHD General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg said the lawsuit shows “the close ties between entities and individuals who work toward the same purpose — propping up the vaccine industry and those who profit from it.”
The AAP is the largest pediatric trade group in the U.S., with 67,000 members.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks financial damages for the individual plaintiffs. It also asks the court to require the AAP to disclose the “lack of comprehensive safety testing” of vaccines, and bar the AAP from making “further unqualified safety claims” about vaccines.
Drs. Paul Thomas and Kenneth Stoller — physicians whose professional reputations were harmed for opposing AAP’s guidelines, and the parents of four children who died or were injured after receiving routine childhood vaccinations, are among the plaintiffs.
Lawsuit: AAP’s childhood vaccine safety claims based on ‘foundational fraud’
According to the lawsuit, the AAP’s claims about vaccine safety rest on a “foundational fraud” — namely, a 2002 article by pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit, published in the journal Pediatrics. The article claims that infants can “theoretically” receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once without posing a health risk.
The AAP “deployed this theoretical reassurance” to block the IOM studies and questions about the safety of the childhood schedule, to assure parents, doctors and policymakers that the vaccine schedule was thoroughly tested, the complaint states.
The AAP incorporated Offit’s claims into its flagship Red Book — its guide to the prevention, management and control of pediatric diseases. “Pediatricians learned to cite the 10,000 vaccines figure when parents expressed concern,” the complaint states.
“The Red Book is their Bible. When AAP says the schedule is safe, that’s what parents hear in examination rooms across America,” Jaffe said.
“Offit’s theoretical PR article did not study, and could not prove, the safety of the cumulative schedule,” according to the complaint. Yet the pediatricians who deviate from this standard of care have faced professional and personal consequences.
‘AAP turned pediatricians into vaccine delivery systems’
Thomas and Stoller, the two pediatricians who are suing the AAP, said they suffered professional and economic harm after questioning vaccine safety claims.
In 2020, Thomas co-authored research, now retracted, comparing the health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Days later, the Oregon Medical Board suspended Thomas, citing his deviation from AAP protocols and calling him a “threat to public health.”
“I was forced to abandon my patients, something highly illegal,” Thomas said. “There was economic damage in the millions and devastating stress and emotional duress.”
Stoller also faced professional discipline and reputational harm, according to the complaint. He lost his medical license in California and New Mexico after he granted medical exemptions to vaccine mandates.
“AAP turned pediatricians into vaccine delivery systems and destroyed the ones who asked questions,” Jaffe said.
AAP guidelines led to children’s vaccine-related deaths and injuries
The AAP’s “Red Book” vaccine recommendations contributed to the deaths and injuries of three of the plaintiffs’ children, according to the lawsuit.
Idaho resident Andrea Shaw’s two children — fraternal twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw — both died last year, eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines.
According to the complaint, the Shaw family’s physician dismissed the parents’ warnings about the family’s history of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine. The doctor was following AAP guidance, “which does not generally recognize family history of vaccine reactions.”
A day after their vaccination, Shaw’s children were taken to the emergency room for a series of symptoms documented as “post-immunization reaction, initial encounter.”
A week later, the children died. Local authorities launched a homicide investigation against their mother, based on the suspicion that she caused their deaths. The investigation is still active.
New York resident Shanticia Nelson’s 1-year-old daughter, Sa’Niya Carter, died last year of cardiac arrest after having seizures roughly 12 hours after receiving six “catch-up” injections containing 12 vaccines.
Nelson told doctors she was concerned about giving her daughter so many vaccines at once, because the child was sick at the time. However, healthcare workers told Nelson that the “catch-up” regimen and vaccinating a “mildly ill” child were safe, according to the AAP.
Carter’s death certificate listed “sudden unexpected death in childhood” as the official cause of death. However, the coroner found signs of encephalitis, a condition linked to the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) vaccine, which Carter had received.
“Shaw and Nelson’s stories show what happens when AAP’s paradigm corrupts medical judgment at the point of care,” the complaint states.
Plaintiff Jane Doe’s daughter, “E,” a high school student in New York, sustained anaphylactic reactions after getting three routine childhood vaccines.
The student later obtained a medical exemption from all further vaccinations. But in 2024, her school’s medical consultant revoked the exemption — and two more exemptions “E” had obtained — citing AAP guidelines.
After school officials said she couldn’t return to school unless she complied with state vaccine mandates, “E” became suicidal — so her parents allowed her to “catch up” on her vaccines.
After getting those shots, “E” had a severe allergic reaction and was diagnosed with arthropathy, a joint disease, requiring surgery and ongoing care. Arthropathy has been linked to the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which “E” had received.
“Jane Doe’s story shows what happens when treating physicians get it right and the AAP paradigm overrides them,” the complaint states.
Complaint highlights AAP’s conflict of interest with vaccine makers
The AAP maintains financial relationships with vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi Pasteur, and also with the federal government. However, the group doesn’t disclose these relationships in its policy statements and public safety assurances, according to the complaint.
This has led to conflicts of interest, including the formation of an “association-in-fact enterprise,” referring to “individuals or entities that operate together for a common purpose without forming a formal legal entity.”
“The same pharmaceutical conglomerates that serve as enterprise participants in manufacturing childhood vaccines have systematically acquired companies treating the chronic conditions those vaccines cause, creating a closed-loop system that financializes childhood illness,” the complaint states.
The complaint alleges that AAP has subsequently resisted any changes to the childhood vaccination schedule, including those enacted under the leadership of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Last year, the AAP and other medical organizations sued Kennedy and other federal health officials and agencies. The groups seek to roll back the changes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made to the childhood schedule. Last week, the AAP updated its complaint after HHS reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 earlier this month.
The AAP last year released its own “evidence-based” immunization schedule, identical to the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule as it was before Kennedy became health secretary. Several states have adopted the AAP’s schedule.
AAP later rejected the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) vote to end hepatitis B shots for newborns, claiming children will “die” as a result. HHS removed AAP members from ACIP work groups last year. AAP’s updated lawsuit also asks the court to block ACIP’s next meeting in February.
In a separate lawsuit filed last month, the AAP demanded HHS restore $12 million in research grants that HHS withdrew last year. Last week, a federal judge reinstated the funding. AAP has also called for the prohibition of religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccination.
When HHS “has attempted reform, AAP leads the opposition,” the complaint states.
Mack Rosenberg said the AAP “fails to follow the actual science” in its lawsuits. Instead, the organization relies “only on that which supports its position that the childhood schedule is ‘safe and effective.’”
Plaintiffs compare AAP’s actions to those of Big Tobacco
The complaint draws parallels between AAP’s actions and tobacco companies’ efforts to conceal the dangers of smoking, which the U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted in a landmark RICO case, U.S. v. Philip Morris USA.
In the Philip Morris case, a federal court found that the tobacco industry was liable for denials about the health risks of tobacco spanning several decades.
The complaint states there are parallels between the AAP’s actions and those of Big Tobacco, including “suppression of adverse research, use of ‘independent’ scientific voices to block studies, and coordinated enterprise activity to mislead the public.”
This is the latest in a series of lawsuits CHD has filed. These include lawsuits against:
- The federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, which oversees COVID-19 vaccine injury compensation claims.
- The U.S. Department of Defense over its “sham” religious exemption policies,
- The state of New York, alleging its prohibition of religious exemptions is unconstitutional.
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- RFK Jr. Cancels Millions in Grants to AAP, as Battle Heats Up Between Health Officials and Pediatric Group
- Leading Pediatrician Group Defies CDC, Tells Parents to Get COVID Shots for Infants, Kids
- AAP Received Tens of Millions in Federal Funding to Push Vaccines and Combat ‘Misinformation’
- AAP, AMA Booted From CDC Vaccine Advisory Working Groups
- Dr. Paul Thomas: Why I Don’t Vaccinate Kids — and What Parents Should Know
Wonderful! Get every penny, every thing of value from these globalists. Even their personal riches.
Now use RICO on doctors for "Gender affirming care" — mutilating children, teens, and adults and creating life-long users of hormones while irreversibly making them sterile (among other "side-effects").
Also the robed killer judges that decide all these cases in a court ,Fed, State and local.
But but but SCIENCE!
The "Science of Lying."
Fauci was an absolute "Master" at it…..BTW, where has the little scumbag disappeared too?
If this one issue did not wake you up, weather or not you have children they lied to us about the Children just to stay in power, you are beyond hope. Never forget. The legacy media went all in. Proof of the Mocking Bird Media. Not one talking head has even been asked about their lies.
This is the practice of commercial medicine rather than the art of healing.
AI will effectively reduce physicians to tech-docs depriving patients of their humanity.
These are the same gools that try and mutilate children and we know they are democRATs
If they can't abort than poison and mutilate them. its the democRAT way
Yes, they are ghouls.
AAP creates high medical service users for life. Basically they are the trade group for glass makers who throw bricks through windows.
It's a revolving door of customers, hence the racketeering charges
The Children’s Health Defense has a decent chance to win.
Western "medicine" is not your friend.
Gee whiz, I'd share this info with a cousin who freaked out when she gave her kid the Jab and I disagreed, but hey, she unfriended me over it. Oh, well. Can't fix stupid.
Kids out there in propaganda land , don't mate with those who have proved unworthy of contributing to future generations !
I.e. Government, vaccine salesmen, democrats, and "the sky is falling", hysterics !
GOOD! Sue the frauds.
Good.
Search on Rumble for JFK Jr and Mike Tyson and watch the video
99% of all "medicine" does nothing but bank paper for the "health" industry.
Not true!
99% have side effects!
Side effects that require another prescription
And the other 1% has zero efficacy
Correct and is why I posted bank paper.
Nick Shirley deserves more than a pulitzer.
It is true because I watched it and my husband of 37 years is dead to their negligence
Not 99% because you are equating bone-setting and surgery with drug-dealing.
For the Pharmaceutical part of "healthcare," the fraud is likely 70-80 percent.
How many unnecessary tests, proceedures, etc. are done so the professional won't be successfully sued? I would roll off some of those costs as expenses to cover their posteriors from potential litigation. But, I don't know what the breakdown is. I do know it is significant waste of our dollars. And I don't blame medicine for the tort train.
My over 50 years of watching the AAP convinces me that they are either corrupt or totally ignorant.
Corrupt is my guess. How do you jab babies, watch them have negative reactions, go from normal healthy babies to broken, autistic, sick babies over and over again with lifelong problems, and then jab another one to keep your paycheck from big pharma coming. Saw a sad commercial the other day, some poor boy with eczema his mom was fretting over, and of course it was pushing medication to treat it. I yelled at the TV that mom gave him this disease by getting him vaccinated, she doesn't get to whine now. And big pharma gets paid for the vaccines and then paid for eczema cream.
Big Pharma pumps ten billion dollars into government the meida and these criminal organizations.
A baby's immune system is not developed enough for any vaccine to be effective. Age 4 is when vaccines should be given.
Why vaccinate a baby? So they need to take boosters..at the time when a child should be vaccinated. This scam doubles the sales of vaccines
Yes, Japan delayed the start of vaccination for a few years– that was already decades ago.
Dave…Don't forget the DC Lobbyists……
They are all 'paid' big money….who then in turn bribe the politicians.
That's good news.
These organizations like AAP need to be stopped from having any power to make these kinds of recommendations..Their power must be taken away, or they must be disbanded completely
Tucker Carlson did an interview a few months ago with a recently retired surgeon who is still a Fellow at the American College of Surgeons. He explained how med schools use course material and books written by big pharma that only teach doctors how to drug people up, rather than cure disease. Then he recommended that people stay away from doctors under the age of 40.
I remember thinking "Why not those under 60?" Almost 40 years ago, I tore an ACL while skiing. The first doctor immediately wanted to perform surgery. I went to another one for a second opinion. Doc #2 was an old school gray haired guy who recommended that I put a few hardcover books in a tote bag, sit down, hook the handles over my ankle, lift my ankle until it was parallel with the floor, and do a bunch of reps to build up my quadricep. Needless to say, I refused the surgery.
It's akin to the Rockefeller takeover; one in the same.
Health industry is the new wealth industry
Not for patients. Patience no more.
Only Big Pharma and democrats makes wealth off the health care industry.
Insurance companies have played a very profitable role… including non-profits like Kaiser Permanente.
INDEED. Dont forget ANTHEM
UniParty contines to fund; Congress is responsible…where the buck stops.
Dissolve CDC, FDA, NIH that are reliant on Big Pharma $ to push their drugs. End public-private partnerships.
"Children’s Health Defense Hits AAP With RICO Suit Over Fraudulent Vaccine Safety Claims."
The Children's Health Defense should also sue Big Pharma for their false claims stating the COVID vaccine as safe and effective.
No one had informed consent. The Emergency Use Authorization provided by CDC/FDA was the liability shield for Big Pharma; they lied and said there were no prophylaxis to treat, but there was: HCQ and Ivermectin. Neither are money makers for Big Pharma.
And the vax most people received was DIFFERENT the what was spelled out in EUA
Nothing was spelled out = no informed consent. Nothing was written on the inserts; blank.
They were legally allowed to vary content by 49% without seeking reauthorization. The whole thing was an intentional poisoning of humanity. mRNA, metals, parasites, self-assembling nanoparticles, encapsulated venoms, simian cancer viruses and anything else they wanted to depopulate us with was injected—free of accountability. And they got rich doing it.
And Fauci, Birx and the rest of the cabal
Sadly, the government judges will simply rule that it's legal for government to lie.
It's time for a new government.
Good !
The APA has long been a "tool", of the Government experts, who have been in bed, copulating, vigorously, with the Vaccine Industry !
I WANT RETRIBUTION !
The American "Academy" of Pediatrics is a thoroughly corrupt organization. If parents only understood just how corrupted vaccine safety studies are without even proper controls, meaning a control injection for safety comparison purposes. They also refuse to compare vaccinated with unvaccinated children as they know how horrible and tragic the results of vaccination are. The AAP also wants to trans your kids. They and big pharma deserve to go bankrupt from heavy penalties, and after they are bankrupt, they should be flushed straight to hell, which is probably where they came from in the first place.
For years they supported circumcising infants without anesthesia because they couldn’t feel pain. I watched a video of these ghouls cutting an infant and watched the infant go into shock. The organization is ACORN for physicians. It should be disbanded.
AAP are boneheads. If PT or RFK has anything to do with recommendations the 'doctors' will fight it. Fake vaccines for young kids, Tylenol during pregnancy…everything.
I'll bet that the vaxx industry is afraid of the public learning how much damage is caused by vaccines and how much they may contribute to contracting other types of health issues in the future.
Afraid is an understatement.
They have spent Billions of dollars and countless hours setting up systems to prevent that very thing.
Good. I hope that they don't screw it up.
If this were going to go anywhere it would be Pam Bondi filing the suit. This is a stroke of the pen from a corrupt judge from being dismissed.
While working in the school system as a therapist who worked with autistic and other behaviorally challenged children, the filling out of a questionnaire regarding the developmental milestones of the child by the parents was part of the paperwork that was filled out before the assessment process that would determine the course of therapy the child would be given. The vast majority of these parents reported that their child appeared to be developing normally, and then it all changed abruptly a few days after a well-baby visit to the doctor where multiple vaccines were given. Coinky dink? I think not. I saw this over and over.
Demons is what they are.. pure evil.
I watched this myself when my beloved daughter went into speech therapy and the need is so astonishing. Super sad
I raised & rescued dogs for many years & saw the same thing. Also, a number of them died within 15 mins to 2 weeks after being vaxxed. I stopped all shots, pharma, pet foods & toxic products for my own dogs & saw amazing improvement in intelligence, health & lifespan (almost doubled). There was no more chronic disease & my unvaxxed dogs were never sick. My family & friends who've also done this have had dogs live to be 23 yrs old & cats live to be 32 yrs. We've been deliberately lied to & not just about vaccines & pharma.
My cat has me cooking ground turkey with beef heart for her, jezz. No nutrition in kibble.
We feed raw cuz that’s their natural diet & it has more nutrition & enzymes that are essential for good health. Good for you! Yes, kibble is horrible.
Yes, I am aware of that, but there is the possibility of bacterial infection. I know, not likely, but the cat likes it cooked. I do purchase from an organic health food store, spoiled cat.
I’m not trying to push you but don’t believe the bacteria lies. Me, my family & friends have been feeding raw for over 20 yrs; none of us have ever had any of our animals get sick from “bacteria.” Their stomach acid is even greater than ours so that’s not an issue. Perhaps in animals who don’t have healthy gut/immune system. You’re doing great. We also do organic. If you’re ever interested in learning more, look into Dr. Pottenger’s cats; he did real life studies on feeding cats to learn the truth. He was a good man & vet who wanted to do right for the animals. All the best to you & yours.
No, I get it, perhaps my wording was not clear. I follow Joseph Mercola, and he basically says the same. I drink raw milk, so I am familiar with the bacteria hype. Oh yes, the Pottenger’s Cats Study.
It is worth mentioning that the increase of e coli outbreaks recently is a bit concerning, probably due to Water Management Issues and Proximity to Livestock.
NONE of our supposed ‘health’ orgs are legitimate.. they’re systematically evil.
Wonderful! And release the full truth about vaccines & big pharma so that everyone will know before making decisions about vaccines & other pharma poisons. That's called an informed decision. The truth is there are NO studies or proofs that ANY vaccine is safe or harmless. Proven twice in court (RFK, Jr. & Del Bigtree lawsuits) & by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny who researched vaccines for 22+ yrs, reading everything written on them. She discovered there are no vaccine studies or any proofs that any vaccine is safe or harmless. It's all a massive, worldwide fraud used to harm & kill humanity & God's creatures; done by satanic pharma. "…for by thy sorceries (pharmakia is the word in orig. Greek text, meaning witchcraft or sorcery) were all nations deceived." Rev. 18:23. God told us the truth long, long ago.
Nail these bastards who have and are working for the pharmaceuticals for money at the expense of our health.
They want the population trimmed by a lot ! They start in the womb and work their way up ,it's very obvious .
my daughter had immediate adverse reaction to vaccine that was deemed 'mandatory.'
we found a new pediatrician, homeschooled, and now she's a healthy productive member of society, married with a kid of her own.
a good news success story for a change
AAP, AMA, ADA (once FDA & CDC) {FBI, CIA, NSI …….}
There sure seems to be allot of very dangerous 3 to 5 letter acronym (Alphabet) agencies.
Almost like a long running, well-funded and highly orchestrated plan of some kind was being carried out against US Citizens and other world populations.
What group of evil people would do such a thing? /sarc
Do you get it yet ?
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Good!
ok maga cultist don't give your kid that be a lot less of ya'll like the covid vax thined out the herd
This is huge news that should of been headline news on all channels. Share it everywhere. But not a peep.
“Do pediatricians get incentivized with percent vaccination of their?”
Brian Hooker, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Children’s Health Defense. responds, “Yeah, they’re typically incentivized directly by HMOs.” He continues, “HMO’s buy and sell vaccines so vaccines are big businesses for HMOs.”
Hooker then details the range of incentives that he says are available to pediatricians: “But the incentivization is usually anywhere from $200 to $600 per fully vaccinated patient as long as a certain percentage of their practice is fully vaccinated.”
The clip concludes with Hooker stating, “to a million or more per year just in those incentives.”