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The $7 billion Purdue bankruptcy plan giving the Sacklers immunity from more lawsuits gets nixed by Supreme Court
A 5-4 split among Supreme Court justices just killed Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy plan — and th…
Jack Newsham  Â
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The oxycontin-peddling Sackler family has tried to get immunity from civil lawsuits by filing for bankruptcy. That might be illegal.
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments that could have far-reaching effects on how corporations d…
Katie Balevic  Â
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The controversial Sackler family is the focus of Netflix's opioid-crisis drama 'Painkiller.' Here's where the family is now.
Many believe that the Sackler-owned company Purdue Pharma is responsible for igniting the opioid ep…
Libby Torres  Â
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'Painkiller' fact vs. fiction: What the Netflix show got right about the opioid crisis, OxyContin, and the Sackler family
Broderick plays Richard Sackler, a member of the controversial Sackler family that owns Purdue, and…
Libby Torres  Â
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Members of the super-rich Sackler family that profited from OxyContin were forced to listen to opioid victims call them the 'scum of the earth'
People who had OxyContin addictions, and who had lost loved ones to the drug, denounced the multi-b…
Bethany Dawson  Â
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A bankruptcy court granted the Sacklers immunity from all future opioid lawsuits, and the family agreed to pay a $4.3 billion settlement
In exchange for immunity, the Sackler family agreed to give up ownership of Purdue Pharma, the make…
Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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A disabled veteran facing $7,000-per-week medical costs wrote a letter begging the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy judge not to allow a settlement
People trying to settle claims against Purdue Pharma have written emotional letters to the bankrupt…
Kenneth Niemeyer  Â
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the 'Sackler' name after the Purdue Pharma family agreed to pay $4.3 billion over opioid harms
The Met's Sackler Wing and Exhibition Hall opened in 1978, when it featured items discovered in the…
Charles Davis,Allana Akhtar  Â
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'There's not one Scrooge McDuck, there's a lot of them': The Sackler family's sprawling wealth became the focus of a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy hearing
The Sacklers, the family that founded OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, are estimated to be worth $11 …
Allana Akhtar  Â
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2 members of the Sackler family, owners of OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma, refused to take any personal responsibility for the opioid crisis
David Sackler said his family felt "great sadness" about the opioid epidemic, but also said he beli…
Sarah Al-Arshani  Â
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An FDA official who led the approval of OxyContin got a $400,000 gig at Purdue Pharma a year later, a new book reveals
The FDA approved OxyContin in 1995 believing it would result in "less abuse potential." In 2001, th…
Allana Akhtar  Â
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The billionaire Sackler family, whose company has been blamed for the opioid epidemic, 'erased' the death of a family member suffering from addiction who died by suicide, according to a new book
"They did not speak of him, for the most part. He was erased," Patrick Radden Keefe wrote regarding…
Allana Akhtar  Â
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Jimmy Kimmel said Tucker Carlson is the 'media equivalent' to the Sackler family: 'He's knowingly producing this deadly opioid of lies'
Kimmel said Carlson's main job is "primarily speaking to senior citizens like they're kindergartene…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell  Â
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Non-profits, museums, and hedge funds: Here are the groups that have cut ties with the Sackler family over the opioid crisis
Now, many of those institutions are walking back their connections with the family. In addition, fu…
Carmen Reinicke  Â
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New York authorities discovered $1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family as authorities suspect they are hiding wealth from lawsuits
Activists of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) association - created to respond to…
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley  Â
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Meet the Sacklers, one of the richest families in America, who built their $14 billion fortune off of controversial prescription drug OxyContin
The Sacklers are not a tight-knit family. The Guardian described them in 2018 as "a sprawling and n…
Katie Warren  Â
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Purdue Pharma and the billionaire Sackler family may leverage profits from OxyContin as part of an unusual proposed resolution to 2,000 lawsuits accusing them of driving the opioid epidemic
Opioid lawsuits have also targeted other companies, including drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and l…
Emma Court  Â
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The Sacklers tentatively agreed to pay $3 billion out of their pockets and dissolve Purdue Pharma to settle thousands of opioid lawsuits
In addition to being 100% owners of Purdue Pharma, members of the Sackler family are also major phi…