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Sacklers threaten to scrap opioid deal if they aren't shielded from lawsuits
Lawyers for OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma filed a new complaint late Wednesday threatening that the company's mega-rich owners, the Sackler family, could pull out of a proposed multi-billion-dollar opioid settlement deal if a bankruptcy judge doesn't shield the family from outstanding state lawsuits.
Purdue's lawyers argue that if the lawsuits continue, the Sacklers will have to waste "hundreds of millions of dollars" on legal costs that could otherwise go to claimants in the settlement. The family's lawyers added that in that event, the family "may be unwilling—or unable—to make the billions of dollars of contributions" to the proposed settlement.
State attorneys general, however, argue that the tactic is yet another move designed to shield the Sacklers and their ill-gotten wealth.
"This filing isn't a surprise. It's yet another effort by Purdue to avoid accountability and shield the Sackler family fortune, and we will be opposing it," Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, told the New York Times.
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(Score: 2) by Pav on Monday September 23 2019, @11:59AM
If YOU were denied food you're mere weeks from murdering for a meal, becoming a cannibal etc... My grandfather saw skinny skeleton-people sitting staring into space with blood around their lips in a WWII camp in poland. He thought they were sick, but they had been driven mad by hunger and cut the glutius maximus (butt muscles) from the corpses of their bretheren - it was the only part with enough meat.
I'm sure those cannibals deserved the blame... not the people that engineered that situation. **eyeroll**