West Virginia sues Walgreens, Rite-Aid for flooding their pharmacies with painkillers

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4. WV AG Morrissey is up for reelection.

When first elected in 2008, he promised to serve only two terms. And he has had terrible feedback for settling lawsuits with drug companies for small amounts of money, relatively speaking.

From his Wikipedia entry:

From 2004 to 2012, Morrisey worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C. He worked for the corporate law firm Sidley Austin before he joined King & Spalding in 2010, becoming a partner. As a lobbyist, he was viewed as an expert on health and drug-related regulations and legislation. He was paid $250,000 to lobby on behalf of a pharmaceutical trade group. The group was funded by some of the same opioid distributors that West Virginia sued for flooding the state with opioids.

This is merely an election ploy.