OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 7:24 PM EDT, April 28, 2026


NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is set to be dissolved and replaced by a company focused on the public good by the week’s end, as a massive legal settlement resolving thousands of lawsuits takes effect.

A federal judge on Tuesday delivered a criminal sentence to the company to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice probe — a last necessary step to clear the way for the settlement.

U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo made her decision after listening to hours of impact statements from people who lost loved ones or struggled with addiction themselves and requested she reject the negotiated sentence. While she didn’t go that far, she said she sympathized with people who bore the brunt of an epidemic linked to more than 900,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999.

“It was a purposeful, intentional and sophisticated crime scheme,” she said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-criminal-sentence-settlement-b8aa94eaab3d9d8efed520f272f6d810

[Orrex]

1. Has Fuckface47 pardoned them yet?

[popsdenver]

2. Trump ADORED

the worst Oxy addict ever known.....Rush Limbaugh.......His hearing loss was a known side effect of massive amounts of Oxycodone.......

Also, Limbaugh was known for running a big bunch of his own "sex junkets" to Thailand in HIS plane, with a load of other buddies..

[Orrex]

3. Wasn't he also caught with a bag of viagra en route to Dominican Republic?

Or am I thinking of one of the many other Reichwing child rapists?

[Multichromatic]

7. You are correct.

It was also rumored at the time that he was in the Dominican Republic with his Viagra to see male prostitutes.

[popsdenver]

11. If they were boys under 14

then he was shopping for his friend Lindsay...........

[CanonRay]

4. How do you give a corporation the death penalty?

[AZ8theist]

5. Judicial dissolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution

[Seinan Sensei]

6. So the Sacklers get to keep all their money?

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. You got it!

Such wonderful justice in this country.

[LeftInTX]

10. From the article: They have to pay 6.5-7 billion over 15 years.

The settlement, which Purdue says could take effect as soon as Friday, calls for members of the Sackler family who own the company to contribute up to $7 billion over 15 years. Most of the money is to go to government entities to use to fight the opioid crisis.

They are worth 11 billion. Will this hurt them? Who knows? They probably saw this coming. And I'm pretty sure 15 years allows them to structure their wealth. I have no idea because I'm not worth much! So, it appears they get to keep less than half, but since it's spread out over 15 years, who knows?

Nasty drug....Should have never been marketed for anything less than terminal cancer or other almost terminal type pain syndromes.

Never should be prescribed for most types of chronic pain, (common muscular-skeletal pain) because most chronic muscular-skeletal pain is cylical, even if severe. It was even prescribed for acute type pains too.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Well, that makes it all better.

While she didn’t go that far, she said she sympathized with people who bore the brunt of an epidemic linked to more than 900,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999.

[republianmushroom]

12. Anybody going to Jail, nope.

But they pocketed Billions. Great justice system, if , your rich buy your way out.

[iemanja]

13. They purposefully addicted people

And pressured doctors to prescribe higher and higher dosages. As a result, thousands died.