Giuliani helped to keep Oxycontin in the hands of addicts
If you or someone you care about is addicted to OxyContin, former New York City Mayor and current Worst Frigging Lawyer on the Whole Damn Planet, Rudolph Giuliani, is partially to blame. 300,000...
View ArticleThe billionaire family who profited off the opioid epidemic are finally...
The Sackler Family (previously) are a family of self-styled philanthropist billionaires who have been largely successful in their campaign to whitewash their family name by giving away a few...
View ArticleMeet John Horgan and the BC NDP - North America’s most progressive government
If you live outside province you likely haven’t heard much about our new government, but here in British Columbia changes are happening fast, and you should know about them. From 2001 until May of...
View ArticleArtist Nan Goldin leads protests at the Guggenheim and the Met over their...
The Sackler family (previously) is one of the richest in the world, and if you've heard of them, it's probably because their family name adorns so many art galleries, museums, and academic...
View ArticleJohn Oliver tackles the Sacklers: the litigious, secretive billionaires whose...
The Sacklers (previously) are a reclusive, super-secretive family of billionaires whose fortune comes from their pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of Oxycontin, the drug at...
View ArticleProsecutors and federal judges collaborate with corporations to seal evidence...
When federal prosecutors drag corporations into court for business practices that hurt or even kill people, it's routine for corporate counsel to ask to have the evidence in the case sealed, and for...
View ArticleMassachusetts says Purdue's profits from a single opioid addict were $200,000
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is not the first state to sue Purdue Pharma, members of the Sackler family (who own the company), and other board members for their role in deliberately seeking to...
View ArticleNew York AG finds a billion dollars that the Sacklers funneled through a...
The Sackler family got richer than the Rockefellers through their role in creating and sustaining the opioid crisis, which took more American lives than the Vietnam war. The family is secretive and...
View ArticleUS prosecutors say the "bankrupt" Sacklers still have billions hidden away
The Sackler family (previously) made more money than the Rockefellers when their family business, Purdue Pharma, misled the public about the addictiveness of its flagship opioid, Oxycontin, and...
View ArticleLeaks reveal how the "Pitbull of PR" helped Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers...
Propublica has obtained a tranche of leaked internal communications between the Sackler family's Purdue Pharma, makers of the lethal opioid Oxycontin, and Dezenhall Resources, known as "The Pitbull of...
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty on criminal charges including...
The makers of the highly addictive prescription painkiller Oxycontin, Purdue Pharma LP, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to criminal charges in part of a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve an...
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How the Sacklers' opioid lawsuit could scam the bankruptcy system
Opioids helped kill friends of mine. Even more frustrating is that this is not particularly unique or interesting. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services: More than 760,000 people...
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The Sackler family gets sacked from NY's Met museum
After a decades-long marriage, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Purdue Pharma's Sackler family are parting ways: the disgraced Sacklers, who have been pushing their highly addictive Oxycontin since...
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