Now, I'm not a lawyer, but I *have* worked for a campaigning law-firm for over 20 years, and I've spent the same amount of time writing about the sins of the rich and powerful. I've seen a *lot* of threats, both those received by our clients and sent to me.

I've been threatened by everyone from #GwynethPaltrow to #RalphLauren to the #Sacklers. I've been threatened by lawyers representing the billionaire who owned #NSOGroup, the notoroious cyber arms-dealer.

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Of course, it also includes the PR managers and philanthropic ventures that allow the klept to launder their reputation, to make themselves synonymous with good deeds rather than mass murder. Think here of how the #Sacklers used charity to turn their family name into a synonym for culture and fine art, rather than death by opioid overdose:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

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so I picked up the prescriptions for my sinus surgery next week: antibiotics, saline spray...

and oxycodone.

which came with a package of #naloxone

the pharmacist explained to me how to teach my carer to perform a sternal rub, how to use it, when to call 911.

she said: "i hope you don't end up needing it, so please pass it on to someone who may"

when i told her I'm going to carry it in my purse since I've come across people who overdosed before, she advised me to pack a pair of gloves so I could administer it without getting exposed to any opioids they may have consumed.

this is our world now. this is what we allowed the #sacklers to do to us, and get obscenely rich over. and they're still getting away with it if this bankruptcy is allowed to proceed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/supreme-court-purdue-case.html

Bankruptcy or Justice? Sackler Billionaires' Lethal Fortune and the Oxycontin Death Toll.
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/08/14/bankruptcy-or-justice-sackler-billionaires-lethal-fortune-and-the-oxycontin-death-toll/
#Sacklers #Opioids #PurduePharma #oxycontin

The saga of the #Sacklers, a multigenerational billionaire crime family of mass-murdering dope-peddlers, is an enraging parable about how the wealthy, the courts, and sadistic high-powered lawyers collude to destroy the lives of millions, profit handsomely, and evade justice.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

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Read any of the excellent books about Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, and I don’t see how you’d come to any conclusion other than: these folks’ actions were criminal to the highest degree. #Sacklers #OpiodCrisi

Just finished the book “Empire of Pain” about the Sackler family, how they got their start making Valium and then progressed to OxyContin. I knew they were a warped family but this really lays out their whole strategy of greed and self-righteousness that led to incredible destruction. It’ll piss you off, especially how they bought people at all levels of government to protect their billions. Highly recommended.

#bookstadon #nonfiction #opioids #pharma #capitalism #corruption #Sacklers

@bendwalsh

on the one hand, this is the very highest grade of twitter snark, gossip for the NYRB Georgetown Elite University crowd

OTOH, it is , and I'm serious, just total sh*t, reflecting an abysmmal ignorance of how the world actually works

#Sacklers #Opioids #Dendur
#MITCancerCenter

No, justice would be that the Sacklers sleep on heating grates and turn tricks for drug money in Port Authority bathrooms. But maybe that's just me.
#Sacklers #Opioids #SacklersOfShit

I concluded that a powerful family of secretive, reclusive billionaires - the #Sacklers - were recklessly pushing pain meds in ways they knew would likely lead to addiction and death. I concluded that this family was growing unbelievably wealthy doing this, and threatening the press into silence to prevent anyone from writing about it (years later, I would be threatened by the Sacklers' lawyers for doing so).

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I first found Credit Slips thanks to its outstanding coverage of the bankruptcy of the #Sacklers, the intergenerational crime-family that made billions by starting and fueling the #OpioidCrisis, and managed to keep those billions thanks to a series of breathtakingly corrupt, extremely complex legal maneuvers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/impunity-corrodes/#morally-bankrupt

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@WarmthHighest
Yes, we have a practice of going rails to rails and of punishing the victim. But, not hysteria: all the #Sacklers still walk free.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed shows Nan Goldin's fight to hold the Sacklers accountable for role in opioid crisis https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-08/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-review-nan-goldin-sacklers/102060128?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web #art #addiction #documentary #opioids #Sacklers

#FFS #sacklers #sacklerfamily

#AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed, the documentary about #NanGoldin made me mad about the #sacklers all over again just as the impact of #EmpireOfPain was fading. And to think their name is still on a library ten minutes walk from the cinema. The positive was I learnt more about Goldin herself. Her story, her art, her pain, her determination.

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed has sent me down a Sackler/opiates wormhole.

These are two unmissable pieces

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-addicts-next-door

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

#Sacklers
#Opiates

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=kTKL5P_69e8

#AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed #film
#documentary #LauraPoitras #trailer

#NanGoldin #Sacklers #corporategreed
#museums #art #artist

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=kTKL5P_69e8

#AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed #film
#documentary #LauraPoitras

#NanGoldin #Sacklers #corporategreed
#museums #art #artist

@PopResearchCtrs @uncpopcenter So, 'adult delinquency', but no mention of the mass despair and hopelessness created by the mostly born rich n corrupt US upper class rigging politics and the economy to reserve power and money for themselves, at the expense of the working class.

The #Sacklers and #BigPharma #CVS #Walgreens execs should be financially ruined by fines and clawbacks, and then rot in prison to the end of their evil lives. #SacklerFamily #OpioidCrisis #Opiods

#Sacklers
#Should
#Be
#In
#Prison
#End
#Of
#Story