This is NOT good.

“With criminal guilty pleas, a federal settlement of more than $8 billion, and the dissolution of a company and repurposing its assets entirely for the public’s benefit, the resolution in today’s announcement re-affirms that the Department of Justice will not relent in its multi-pronged efforts to combat the opioids crisis.”

“Today’s resolution is the result of years of hard work by the FBI and its partners to combat the opioid crisis in the U.S.,” said Steven M. D’Antuono, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office. "

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-global-resolution-criminal-and-civil-investigations-opioid

The Sacklers are entirely accountable for the scale of the current opioid epidemic. The damage the Sacklers and Purdue have done to USA and its citizens is 1000 - 10000 x the 8 Billion dollar token fine.

If DOJ going to settle criminal actions as generously as this, then we will always have criminal actions because they remain economically viable for the Sackler Purdue and the other companies involved.

We know this will happen because this is the second time Sackler has been charged for doing this. They paid a billion dollar settlement the last time in 2007 too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/

Some Sackler family members not directly involved with company management pocked billions. Good for them they were not involved. Nor should they want or be permitted to retain profits gained by the deaths of Americans.

People who did that to Jews in Germany; killed them for money, are tracked and prosecuted to this day. These NAZI don't turn over a pittance in settlement to corrupt civil servants and walk away,

It's not as if Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family didn't know that tens of thousands of deaths would result from their actions, which knowingly and deliberately target the demoralized mid western white male population whose livelihoods had been destroyed when their jobs were outsourced to China.

" And at the OxyContin launch party, where the court filing says [Richard] Sackler spoke of a “blizzard of prescriptions” for the potent painkiller, he added: “The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and white.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/15/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-massachusetts-opioid-crisis