TIL that the (((Sackler))) family who owned Purdue Pharma withdrew $10 billion from the company to avoid paying lawsuits when it was discovered they lied about the addictive properties of OxyContin

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TIL that the (((Sackler))) family who owned Purdue Pharma withdrew $10 billion from the company to avoid paying lawsuits when it was discovered they lied about the addictive properties of OxyContin (www.reuters.com)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family

The Sackler family are descendants of Isaac Sackler and his wife Sophie (née Greenberg), Jewish immigrants to the United States from Galicia (now Ukraine) and Poland

Even the wife was a Greenberg. And they complained about antisemitism of course

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-sackler-family-built-a-pharma-dynasty-and-fueled-an-american-calamity/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family >The Sackler family are descendants of Isaac Sackler and his wife Sophie (née Greenberg), Jewish immigrants to the United States from Galicia (now Ukraine) and Poland Even the wife was a Greenberg. And they complained about antisemitism of course https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-sackler-family-built-a-pharma-dynasty-and-fueled-an-american-calamity/

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Just bought that one today! That's how I found out about the one I linked.

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The author Marty did a a series of videos , it's definitely worth checking out.

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Yep, was a masterpiece

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