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Members of Sackler family, billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma, receive full immunity from all civil legal claims—current & future— over co’s opioids biz

…protection that it has been demanding for yrs in exch for payment of up to $6 bil of fortune to help address ongoing opioid crisis.

That $, + company’s initial outlay of $500 mil, can now be dispensed to states & communities for treatment prevention prog’s”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/health/sacklers-purdue-liability-bankruptcy.html

Sacklers Can Be Shielded From Opioid Liability, Appeals Court Rules

The decision gives the Purdue Pharma owners long-sought protection, but it is a major step toward releasing billions of dollars from their fortune to states and communities to help cope with the costs of addiction.

The New York Times
May 30, 2023 at 10:27pmWeb
Show threadDrAHMMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff 🤬
Show threadFallsMom 🌻May 30, 2023
@GottaLaff Sacklers are the pharma Roy family 
Show threadDwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦May 30, 2023
@GottaLaff Appalling, that!
Show threadBrad PatrickMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff They should be living in cardboard boxes if not prison. They should be tormented for the rest of their wretched days.
Show threadFrank’s Old ThingMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff @kcarruthers the rich always buy their way out of actual punishment
Show threadEcthompsonmdMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff doesn't seem right. 🤬
Show threadEl PresidenteMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff that's strange. What I read was, "sacklers jailed and stripped of their billions to pay for the harm they caused." Seems like we have more work to do. No mercy for them.
Show threadThreenotchMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff and they made 6 times that amount so it’s the same old, “cost of doing business”!! They should be in prison with all the other drug dealers!!!
Show threadSemi Sentient AI Cooling WaterMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff Or in short, mass murdering billionaire psychopaths given a fine for ongoing mass murder.
Show threadjohnnyforeignMay 31, 2023
@sentient_water It’s not just mass murder. It’s mass murder for money. They earned the money to pay the fine they received for killing people by killing people.
Show threadSemi Sentient AI Cooling WaterMay 31, 2023
@johnnyforeign Excellent point.
Show threadRevJeberMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff
Immunity from claims, qualified immunity, politicians immune from civil suits...all these immunities tell me we are not now, likely have never been, a country where no one is above the law.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaMay 30, 2023
@GottaLaff fuck the Sacklers
Show threadAgoraMay 31, 2023
@GottaLaff what the fuck?😡😡😡
Show threadCykonotMay 31, 2023

@GottaLaff why let them profit at all

Corrupt, dying country

Show threadWendy LadyMay 31, 2023
@GottaLaff of course. Because if they'd actually scammed investors they'd be prosecuted. But they merely generated harm to countless people with their product.
Show threadCraig+4Jun 1, 2023

@GottaLaff

No one in the Sackler family should be a billionaire. This is not enough.