People drown in their NYC basements, clowns demand Green New Deal
Ida triggers heavy flooding and a tornado in NJ. National Weather Service issues a series of warnings for flash floods and tornadoes. Several people in NYC go to their basements (to avoid dying in the tornado per the NWS alert instructions?) and are trapped by flash floods. They are found drowned after midnight. News outlets fail to highlight the peculiar tragedy of why exactly these people went to their basements in the first place, instead promote clowns calling for the green new deal. Ghouls.
A half a million overdose deaths later, Purdue Pharma dissolved. Sacklers pay $4.5B for permanent immunity.
Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of the OxyContin drug that has been blamed for the US opioid crisis, will be dissolved under a plan approved by a federal judge on Wednesday.
However, the Sackler families that founded and profited from the company will largely be shielded from further penalties, though they will pay $4.5 billion to settle the many lawsuits over the sale of opioids.
"Purdue will cease to exist, and substantially all of its operating assets will be transferred to a newly formed company with a public-minded mission of addressing the opioid crisis," the drug maker said in a statement.
Facing an avalanche of litigation, Purdue in October pled guilty to three criminal charges over its aggressive drive to push sales of the highly addictive prescription painkiller, which stoked a nationwide addiction crisis and caused more than 500,000 overdose deaths in the United States over the past 20 years.
...However, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced he will appeal the plan, calling it "flawed" and "inadequate."
However, the Sackler families that founded and profited from the company will largely be shielded from further penalties, though they will pay $4.5 billion to settle the many lawsuits over the sale of opioids.
"Purdue will cease to exist, and substantially all of its operating assets will be transferred to a newly formed company with a public-minded mission of addressing the opioid crisis," the drug maker said in a statement.
Facing an avalanche of litigation, Purdue in October pled guilty to three criminal charges over its aggressive drive to push sales of the highly addictive prescription painkiller, which stoked a nationwide addiction crisis and caused more than 500,000 overdose deaths in the United States over the past 20 years.
...However, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced he will appeal the plan, calling it "flawed" and "inadequate."
"This order lets the Sacklers off the hook by granting them permanent immunity from lawsuits in exchange for a fraction of the profits they made from the opioid epidemic -- and sends a message that billionaires operate by a different set of rules than everybody else," Ferguson said.
