With $2,300 Phone Calls, Purdue Runs Up Huge Bankruptcy Tab May 12, 2021 By Jeremy Hill and Dawn McCarty One phone call with the Department of Justice: $2,300. Two days at the Ritz-Carlton: $830. Oh, and a lengthy cab...
Endo to Rework $3.3 Billion Loan as Opioid Litigation Looms March 4, 2021 By Katherine Doherty Endo International Plc is trying to get more breathing room on its debt as it contests with ongoing opioid and...
Purdue Creditors Zero In on Sackler Messages From a Decade Ago December 29, 2020 By Jef Feeley, Jeremy Hill and Valerie Bauman Bankruptcy creditors are pointing to a trove of decade-old documents as they probe whether members of the billionaire Sackler family...
Family Behind Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma Offers ‘Sadness’ December 18, 2020 By Geoff Mulvihill Two of the owners of the company that makes OxyContin acknowledged to a congressional committee on Thursday that the powerful...
States Oppose Settlement Being Negotiated by Oxycontin Maker Purdue and Justice Dept. October 15, 2020 By Mike Spector A group of 25 state attorneys general oppose a settlement of U.S. opioid probes being negotiated with Purdue Pharma LP...
Oxycontin Maker Purdue Nears Guilty Plea Agreement in U.S. Criminal Probe-Sources October 7, 2020 By Mike Spector and Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK — Purdue Pharma LP, the OxyContin maker controlled by members of the wealthy Sackler family, is nearing an...
States Seek $2.2 Trillion From Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma August 18, 2020 By Mike Spector NEW YORK — U.S. states claimed they are owed $2.2 trillion to address harm from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP’s...
U.S. Pursues Nearly $13 Billion of Claims in Purdue Pharma Opioid Probes-Sources August 5, 2020 By Mike Spector U.S. prosecutors are pursuing possible penalties of nearly $13 billion to resolve investigations of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma after uncovering...
Lawyers Seek to Halt Purdue Pharma Political Contributions July 13, 2020 OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma should not be able to make any more political contributions without a judge’s permission, lawyers for...
Billionaire Sacklers Don’t Deserve Bankruptcy Shield, States Say March 16, 2020 By Erik Larson Two dozen U.S. states urged a bankruptcy judge to let them revive their stalled lawsuits against the billionaire owners of...