J&J's legal strategy—to avoid baby powder liabilities by transferring them to a subsidiary & putting that subsidiary into bankruptcy—had been inspired by the Sackler family's attempts to escape penalties over opioid sales.
See this thread by @[email protected]:
https://twitter.com/moetkacik/status/1620110670581882880
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1620145145143521280
moe tkacik on Twitter
“J&J's lead medical director predicted in 1969 that the company would face mountains of litigation from grieving families "in 40 years" if it didn't pull the baby powder from the market. So... for more than 40 years J&J covered up their findings & kept the cancer powder in stores”
