The Sackler family, which owns the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, has agreed to pay up to $7.4bn in a settlement to lawsuits arising from the opioid epidemic which has killed about a million Americans.
They will not go to prison as part of a deal, agreed between Purdue Pharma, Sackler family members involved in its ownership, and thousands of victims of the opioid crisis, and state and local governments.
Having made 35 billion from the opioids, th Sacklers can afford 7.4 billion.
In China, the Sacklers would be on death row and millions of lives would have been spared.
The opioids from China are not the problem.
The lack of all deterrence to using them in the USA to make exorbitant profits while killing people is the problem.
The impunity offered to CEOs like the Sacklers perpetuates the opioid crisis, the covid jab crisis, the descrent of the USA into chaos and collapse.
But in the USA, ordinary sense criminals now seem to form the majority of CEOs. Fraud, mass murder, incompetence, corruption is not a problem among the elite mafia set mixing at the golf or sailing club.
And there is no media left much to disturb them as the US collapses from their unremitting greed.
From media
Purdue Pharma made approximately $35 billion in revenue from sales of OxyContin. From 2008 to 2018, amid increasing concern about opioid addiction, the Sackler family attempted to obscure the company’s role in fueling the epidemic. During that time, family members withdrew almost $11 billion from the company and put it in family trusts and holding companies, and the company was sued thousands of times over the marketing of OxyContin. In 2019 Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sackler-family
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