Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty — Critics Say Too Late and Far Too Little to Match Scale of Deadly, ‘Evil Scheme’

By Jake Johnson

The Trump Justice Department announced that Purdue Pharma — the notorious maker of OxyContin — has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for its role in the opioid epidemic and pay $8.3 billion in penalties, punishments that critics panned as too late and far too little to match the scale of the corporation's deadly and "evil scheme to push addictive drugs for profit."

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