https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-global-resolution-criminal-and-civil-investigations-opioid
JUSTICE DEPT REACH AROUND GLOBAL SETTLEMENT WITH PURDUE PHARMACEUTICALs (Oxycontin)
The 8 billion dollar fine represents a sweetheart deal for the company, Purdue Pharma, and especially for the major profit participants, the owners of the company the Sackler family.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-global-resolution-criminal-and-civil-investigations-opioid
This is a sweetheart deal for Purdue given the fact they were prosecuted and convicted of doing exactly the same thing and paid a 600 million dollar fine for doing it (illegal dope dealing) in 2007.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html
Purdue's latest conviction imposes a series of fines which total DOJ states approximates 8 billion dollars. An immediate disavowal of this settlement and investigation of it's terms and circumstances is required given the magnitude of losses both economic and in human life and the enormity of profits retained by memebers of the Sackler family.
Members of the Sackler family not directly involved with Purdue's management or day-to-day operation were paid billions of dollars in profits derived from criminal enterprise - an chemical attack engineered to preferentially target unemployed, demoralized mid western white males whose livelihoods had been moved to China. This genocidal attack was seemingly executed in concert with a nation state collaborator, China, who seamlessly brought in fentanyl to the US market in massive quantities to keep up the destruction.
When USG finally moved against Purdue they stopped them only after the company had done 100s of millions in economic damage to the United States and cost 10s of thousands of American lives..
"When a federal prosecutor wrote of 56 deaths in one state, Richard Sackler wrote in an email to Purdue executives: “This is not too bad. It could have been far worse.”
Then, the complaint says, Sackler began to stigmatize the victims of OxyContin addiction.
He wrote in a confidential email: “We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals.”
The state responded in its suit that: “Richard followed that strategy for the rest of his career: collect millions from selling addictive drugs, and blame the terrible consequences on the people who became addicted.”
As for the demoralized mid western whites targeted by the company, Richard Sackler, Purdue's CEO at the time rhapsodized at the OxyContin launch party, according to court filing says Sackler spoke of a “blizzard of prescriptions” for the potent painkiller, and he added: “The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and white.”
This settlement is indeed an outrage but it's certain our information is incomplete - perhaps additional, more serious, charges are pending. These are pedovores who brazenly, knowingly, callously, murdered 10s of thousands of Americans . The dead deserve justice, and the families who loved and who lost them deserve better than "the largest settlement in history." The large fine meted out to the murderers - allows them to retain billions of dollars gained by Purdue Pharma's strategic subversion – deliberate genocide.
The Sacklers have unfortunatly been given ample opportunity to transfer and hide assets.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/14/20865918/sackler-family-1-billion-wire-transfers-new-york-letitia-james-oxycontin-opioid-epidemic