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Tomconroy

(7,611 posts)
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 10:50 PM Jul 2021

Sackler crime family about to get away with murder

https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2021-06-02/sackler-family-empire-poised-to-win-immunity-from-opioid-lawsuits?_amp=true

In a hard to believe legal maneuver, the individual members of the Sackler family, the inventors of Oxycotin, and their associates, are about to gain complete civil immunity from numerous law suits by order of a suburban New York bankruptcy judge despite the fact that no individual member of the Sackler family ever declared bankruptcy.
. Although the payment for the Sacklers is significant, it is to be paid over many years, allowing the Sacklers to maintain the 11 billion dollar fortune in tact.
If the bankruptcy settlement is approved over the objection of numerous state Attorneys General, the Sacklers will truly have gotten away with The Crime of the Century.
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Sackler crime family about to get away with murder (Original Post) Tomconroy Jul 2021 OP
Can't imagine this would hold up, but we live in a society with 2 standards of legal standing captain queeg Jul 2021 #1
Time for a public outcry. Baitball Blogger Jul 2021 #2
So did the tobacco companies. Mosby Jul 2021 #3

captain queeg

(10,175 posts)
1. Can't imagine this would hold up, but we live in a society with 2 standards of legal standing
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 10:55 PM
Jul 2021

The rich on one hand, and everyone else on the other.

Mosby

(16,299 posts)
3. So did the tobacco companies.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 04:51 PM
Jul 2021

They have immunity from their deal so they can sell their drugs that kill people all over the world with impunity.

Biggest legal drug dealers in the world. They paid less than Perdue BTW.

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