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Sacklers Take $13B from Purdue Pharma, Offer What's Left in Opioid Deal

Associated Press

   Attorneys general representing nearly half the states and lawyers for
   more than 500 local governments Friday blasted the terms of Purdue
   Pharma's offer to settle thousands of lawsuits over the nation's opioid
   crisis in court filings that also said the company had funneled up to
   $13 billion to its controlling family.

   Their legal filings said the tentative deal does not contain an
   admission of wrongdoing from members of the Sackler family, would not
   stop family members from future misconduct and wouldn't force them to
   repay money "they pocketed from their illegal conduct."

   The documents say members of the Sackler family, one of the wealthiest
   in the U.S., made $12 billion to $13 billion from Purdue, a higher
   amount than court records had previously given. The figure was in a
   sworn statement given last month by Jesse DelConte, a restructuring
   consultant for Purdue; an excerpt of his deposition did not specify
   when those payments were made.

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