Purdue Pharma Reaches $8B Opioid Deal With Justice Department Over Oxycontin Sales New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the Sacklers directly last year. Her lawsuit claims some family members pocketed billions of dollars in profits over the last two decades, stashing much of it in offshore accounts before the company filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2019. James responded to the Justice Department’s deal on Wednesday, saying in a written statement that “While our country continues to recover from the pain and destruction left by the Sacklers’ greed, this family has attempted to evade responsibility and lowball the millions of victims of the opioid crisis. Today’s deal doesn’t account for the hundreds of thousands of deaths or millions of addictions caused by Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family.” She went on to say that the settlement “allows billionaires to keep their billions without any accounting for how much they really made. From the beginning, we’ve aimed to unearth how much the Sacklers actually profited and how much they continue to hide away. While no amount of money can ever compensate the pain that so many now know, we will continue to litigate our case through the courts to secure every cent we can to limit future opioid addictions. We are committed to holding the Sacklers and others responsible for the role they played in fueling the opioid crisis.” https://dawgonnit.com/2020/10/21/perdue-pharma-8-bil-settlement
