Purdue Pharma to plead guilty and pay $8.3bn over opioid marketing

Purdue Pharma, the company that became the unacceptable corporate face of the US opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to criminal charges as part of a legal settlement that resolves the federal government’s allegations against it. But the partly UK based Sackler family that owned and directed the company will be spared prosecution in a deal that critics say allows family members to profit from the…

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