By Lacey Crawford – For nearly four hours Congress questioned two members of the billionaire Sackler family, David Sackler, 40, and his cousin, Dr. Kathe Sackler, 72, both having served on Purdue Pharma’s board for years. Purdue Pharma is the maker of OxyContin, the aggressively promoted painkiller that began America’s massive opioid epidemic that has killed more than 450,000 Americans.
From 2008 through 2017, the family skimmed approximately $10 billion from Purdue Pharma, placing the money in “offshore shell companies” as the two family members tried to lay blame on “management” and independent, nonfamily board members.
Eight members of the Sackler family have been named in several state cases.
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