Scott Bartz

Scott Bartz

Scott Bartz embarked on a career as an independent journalist thanks to the support of Johnson & Johnson’s human resources and security personnel who encouraged him to seek a new line of work as they escorted him from the company’s premises on the morning he returned from a “secret” meeting with government prosecutors investigating allegations of Medicaid fraud at J&J. His fulltime career as a writer was precipitated by his work as the co-author of “United States of America, ex rel. Scott Bartz, vs. Johnson & Johnson, et al.” (Case 1:11-cv-10316-RGS). <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2qph... to Bartz’s qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuit</a><br><br>
Bartz has served as an expert consultant to several states’ attorneys general offices and the Department of Justice on matters related to Medicaid fraud. He was a consultant to Kathleen Sharp for her new book, Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Most Dangerous Prescription Drug Ever.<br><br>
Email Scott at: Scott@Tymurs.com

The Tylenol Mafia: Marketing, Murder, and Johnson & Johnson

Oct. 10, 2011 Special to Crime Magazine

Scott Bartz’s recently published book, The Tylenol Mafia: Marketing, Murder, and Johnson & Johnson

An excerpt from Scott Bartz’s recently published book, The Tylenol Mafia: Marketing, Murder, and Johnson & Johnson, available at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com.

by Scott Bartz

Introduction

On September 29, 1982, seven people in Chicago died after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Authorities immediately blamed the poisonings on an anonymous madman who had supposedly put the poisoned capsules into Tylenol bottles in several local retail stores. The evidence, however, refutes this madman-in-the-retail-stores hypothesis, and points instead to a culprit who planted the lethal capsules at a warehouse in the Tylenol distribution system - a system the police did not understand and the media did not investigate.