NEW YORK - Purdue Pharma LP agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription opioid OxyContin, in a deal with U.S. prosecutors that effectively sidestepped paying billions of dollars in penalties and stopped short of criminally charging its executives or wealthy Sackler family owners.
Purdue agreed to pay $225 million toward a $2 billion criminal forfeiture, with the Justice Department foregoing the rest if the company completes a bankruptcy reorganization dissolving itself and shifting assets to a “public benefit company,” or similar entity, that steers the $1.775 billion unpaid portion to thousands of U.S. communities suing it over the opioid crisis.
Neither the Sacklers nor any Purdue executives were criminally charged. The agreement does not release any individuals associated with Purdue from potential criminal liability. A separate Justice Department criminal investigation scrutinizing individuals is ongoing, according to people familiar with the matter.Purdue conspired to engage in criminal conduct over the years that kept medically questionable prescriptions of its opioids flowing, prosecutors said.
Dozens of state attorneys general, meanwhile, oppose a plan that would entangle government litigants with a public benefit company that continues to sell OxyContin.Purdue reaped more than $30 billion from sales of OxyContin over the years, enriching Sackler family members while funneling illegal kickbacks to doctors and pharmacies, U.S. and state officials have alleged.
Purdue’s misconduct included paying illegal kickbacks to doctors and to a vendor called Practice Fusion that created a software alert designed to push the drugmaker’s opioids on physicians, prosecutors said.
RICO them.
How many people have lost family members due to overdose of opiates? I have lost two, my mother and my brother. Disguising itself as pain relief was a demon 👹.
Don’t ever point out that it’s actually doctors that prescribe the drugs. Yes the multinationals are the enemy but it’s the doctors that prescribe the drug time and time again. Doctors like this claim the high ground but shun the reality. Scum.
This was a complete waste of time.
Where is the civil forfeitures and proceeds of crime seizures for the Sackler or Purdue
it's meant for cancer patients on their deathbeds. the way it's marketed is criminal. heads should roll.
“Neither the Sacklers nor any Purdue executives were criminally charged.” FFS.
Fuck them.
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