According to Lobbying Disclosure reports, in the first half of 1996, Johnson & Johnson has spent at least $1,070,000 lobbying Congress to weaken federal laws that protect consumers from dangerous products, that prevent illegal price-fixing of prescription drugs and that preserve clean air and clean water. |
Attorneys General in 22 states have sued the
biggest contact lens companies-Bausch & Lomb,
Johnson & Johnson and Ciba Vision-for price
[fixing] conspiracy, contending that as many as 25
million consumers were overcharged $600 million
between 1989 and 1994. http://www.charm.net/~marc/chronicle/corp_crime.html |
Image-conscious Johnson & Johnson Company (J&J), maker of
age-of-innocence products such as J&J baby powder and shampoo, lost its
innocence in January 1995, when a company subsidiary pled guilty to
destroying documents.
http://www.ratical.org/corporations/mm10worst95.html#n7 |