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Billionaire Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement

Enlarge / Friends and family members of people who have died during the opioid epidemic protest against a bankruptcy deal with Purdue Pharmaceuticals that allows the Sackler family to avoid criminal prosecution and to keep billions of dollars in private wealth, on August 9, 2021, outside the Federal courthouse in White Plains, New York. (credit: […]

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Sacklers–That Left $11 billion Away opioid Meltdown –to pay $225 million in Settlement

Expand / PURDUE PHARMA, STAMFORD, Conn. – 2019/09/12: Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Today ) and Truth Pharm staged a demonstration on September 12, 2019, external Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, within their current contentious opioid settlement. Erik McGregor) The notorious megarich Sackler household will pay $235 million in civil penalties as part of […]