Did Any of the Sacklers Go to Jail?

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Oxiconton made 35 billion dollars in revenue over the decades. How is it that they could be declaring bankruptcy? In one n is because of all these lawsuits. The sacklers had actually been pulling money out of their company, sort of siphening money out. They took more than ten billion dollars out of the company and then kicked it into bankruptcy.

How did one family become associated with an epidemic of drug addiction that has caused the death of almost half a million people? In this episode, award-winning writer and author of Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe speaks to Hannah Kuchler, the FT’s global pharmaceutical correspondent about how he uncovered fresh material on the Sacklers and discovered a modern parable of greed, corruption and cynical philanthropy. To buy the book click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/empire-of-pain-the-secret-history-of-the-sackler-dynasty-patrick-keefe-subscribers/

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