Sky Jewels
Sky Jewels's JournalSpeaking of Rudy Giuliani, here's a reminder of the breadth of his evil
He was one of the three main attorneys that won the horrible 2002 deal that allowed Purdue to keep murdering people by continuing to make and push OxyContin.
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Purdue Pharma hired Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor and now Donald Trump’s lawyer [note: he was his lawyer at the time this article was written], to head off a federal investigation in the mid-2000s into the company’s marketing of the powerful prescription painkiller at the centre of an epidemic estimated to have claimed at least 300,000 lives. According to the CDC, the death toll from OxyContin and related prescription opioids now exceeds 200,000.
The Sackler family made billions from OxyContin. While Giuliani was not able to prevent the criminal conviction over Purdue’s fraudulent claims for OxyContin’s safety and effectiveness, he was able to reach a deal to avoid a bar on Purdue doing business with the federal government which would have killed a large part of the multibillion-dollar market for the drug.
The former New York mayor also secured an agreement that greatly restricted further prosecution of the pharmaceutical company and kept its senior executives out of prison.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/22/rudy-giuliani-opioid-epidemic-oxycontin-purdue-pharma
My great hope: That the Trump indictments/Jan. 6 arrests/imprisonments/fake elector charges, etc.
give pause to at least some U.S. fascists/Nazis/Republicans and make them think twice about attempting another coup d'etat/election theft/democracy overthrow in the future.
TBH, I do wish that Garland had acted with much more urgency and swiftness. The very foundation of our country was at stake. ... But, better late than never, I guess. *sigh*
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