NEW YORK - Purdue Pharma LP pleaded guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve an investigation into the drugmaker’s role in the U.S. opioid crisis.During a court hearing conducted remotely on Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in New Jersey, Purdue pleaded guilty to three felonies covering widespread misconduct.
Purdue Chairman Steve Miller entered the guilty plea on the company’s behalf and admitted to its criminal conduct under questioning from Ferketic. Of the three criminal counts against Purdue, two were for violations of a federal anti-kickback law while another charged the Stamford, Connecticut-based company with defrauding the United States and violating the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
A sentencing imposing those penalties is set to come around the time Purdue receives court approval for a bankruptcy reorganization.
Listen to the 'experts' they said
Nobody will go to jail. Nobody will go broke. All cost of business for these scum.
YESSSS
Sacklers paid a civil penalty that has less impact on them, financially, than does a traffic ticket on the rest of us. It's not even a slap on the wrist. Those fuckers should be jailed for life without possibility of parole. This is not justice. It's comedy. It's an insult.
As a reminder, OxyContin was 'FDA approved.'
Took them long enough..
Companies don’t commit crimes, People do. Charge the Sackler family.
Get em
Cats out of the bag now. How many people have died because of their negligence? And they made BILLIONS.
In their quest to make money, they have disrespected human life . To earn millions they have stooped to such life levels that the hope of the people had been belied. They are the devil in the flesh.
In a just country the Sacklers would be stripped of their riches and put in federal supermax like heroin traffickers do.
jail them please. no special treatment
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