The billionaire Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma will pay $6B & serve 0 prison for knowingly selling horrendous amounts of OxyContin while claiming it was non-addictive—resulting in 564K+ American deaths by Opioid overdose.😓 And that doesn’t even begin to contemplate the global harm and deaths the Sackler family caused.

And for all that suffering and atrocity—not one person will go to prison. Not one.

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.”

@QasimRashid that settlement is only for civil lawsuits and has nothing to do with criminal prosecution, so they can still go to jail. If the government did not settle, they would not see a penny due to bankruptcy, so this $6B is likely the best we could hope for helping those affected