'This apparent settlement is a slap in the face to everyone who has had to bury a loved one due to this family’s destruction and greed.'
Purdue Pharma, the makers of the highly-addictive painkiller OxyContin that many blame for fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic, have reached a tentative settlement deal with thousands of local governments and a handful of states for its alleged role in the crisis that has ravaged the nation, sources familiar with the tentative agreement told ABC News on Wednesday.
Purdue will pay up to $12 billion and the Sackler family will give up control of the company, The Associated Press reported, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the talks. He continued:"I won’t let them get away with the harm they inflicted on our Commonwealth. This is far from over.”“While our country continues to recover from the carnage left by the Sacklers’ greed, this family is now attempting to evade responsibility and lowball the millions of victims of the opioid crisis," New York Attorney General Letitia James told ABC News in a statement.
"The scope and scale of the pain, death and destruction that Purdue and the Sacklers have caused far exceeds anything that has been offered thus far," Tong wrote on Twitter."CT's focus is on the victims and their families, and holding Purdue and the Sacklers accountable for the crisis they have caused."
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