Purdue Pharma, the maker of the powerful opioid OxyContin, which killed thousands of people, will be dissolved after a federal judge approved a $4.5 billion settlement deal with the firm’s owners, who will be granted immunity from future lawsuits in exchange.
Judge Robert Drain of the US Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, New York authorized the settlement on Wednesday, forcing the Sackler family – which owns Purdue – to shell out more than $4 billion and dissolve the company after a flurry of lawsuits linked to OxyContin and its role in America’s opioid crisis.
The judge noted that Purdue’s products had contributed to a “massive public health crisis” that’s led to hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths and a wave of addiction, and voiced frustration that large amounts of the Sacklers’ family Afghanistan-linked fortune is stored in offshore accounts.
The agreement comes after two years of closed-door negotiations, launched after Purdue filed for bankruptcy, restructuring in 2019 as it faced some 2,900 lawsuits, more than 600 of which named members of the Sackler family, according to the New York Times.
Wednesday’s settlement will end those suits, which had been brought by governments, hospitals and individuals alleging harm caused by Purdue’s opioid products.
The $4.5 billion will be paid in installments over a period of nine years, and will largely go to fund addiction treatment centers around the country, instead of the families of the victimized opioid junkies.
While the deal does not forbid criminal prosecution for the family, to date no government or individual has attempted to press criminal charges against the Sacklers, as such cases are more difficult to prove in court.
Purdue itself, however, pleaded guilty to criminal charges last year in a fraud case linked to the super lucrative opioid sales.
Opponents insisted the $4.5 billion settlement amounted to a slap on the wrist for the wealthy Sacklers, who reportedly raked in some $10 billion from Purdue between 2008 and 2017.
A Congressional committee probing the family earlier this year, moreover, estimated it had a combined worth of around $11 billion. Several states have already signaled plans to appeal the decision.
The attorney general for Washington state, Bob Ferguson, who blasted the settlement as morally and legally bankrupt, arguing that it allows the Sacklers to walk away as billionaires with a lifetime legal shield.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2021.
NO ONE has immunity from ‘lead supplements’, which from time to time are administered to the elites and their pet Jewdiciaries. The time for such a boost of body politic ‘health’ is here once more. I personally would prefer the ministrations of Dr Guillotine but people have become rather squeamish. I would start with Bill and Mengele Katz, Pfizer, Astr-Zeneca, Moderna, the WHO, the ACLU,George Soros and all his Open Societie sedition networks, and then work into the State and Banking. Should be fixed in about a year. Now if only the troops would turn their guns around…Otherwise, I fear… Read more »
Depopulation agenda?
Guranteed! The same doctors who backed opioids are now forcing the Death-Jabs.
What a shock! 1) Flint MI, no accountability 2) Afghanistan war and Iraq, No accountability 3) Wall Street Boys and 2008 Looting: No accountability 4) PG@E all the fires and deaths, No accountability 5) Rigging the Gold and Silver Markets ( just Recently) No accountability 6) Spying on Americans and Via Israel, No Account ability 7) In Fact to big to jail and too, big to Fail Laws for the CLUB 8) No Liability and No laws for the TOP ,01% and their fellow travelers The Slacker Family as the Others involved knew what they did and where doing, but… Read more »
Nice list of events.
The get their commissions for helping out this fascist agenda?