Fuck the Sacklers

Now that the Supreme Court has made their indemnification ploy unlawful, the worst drug pushers in world history have come up with a new settlement, and it's even more venal and corrupt than the last one.

Basically, they are demanding that the states put nearly a billion dollars into a Sackler defense funds.

Seven months after the Supreme Court struck down a deal that would have resolved thousands of opioid cases against Purdue Pharma, the company’s owners, members of the Sackler family, have increased their cash offer to settle the litigation — but with a novel catch.

Under the framework for a new deal, the Sacklers would not receive immunity from future opioid lawsuits, a condition that they had long insisted upon but that the court ruled was impermissible.

Instead, they would pay up to $6.5 billion — $500 million more than the previous agreement — but with a new condition: Claimants, including states, municipalities and individuals, would have to set aside as much as $800 million in an account akin to a legal-defense fund for the billionaires to fight such cases, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

Some details of the framework — but not the legal-defense fund — were announced on Thursday by the New York attorney general, Letitia James. She said the overall settlement totaled $7.4 billion, which would include $897 million from Purdue.

The states need to stop the negotiations and sue the Sacklers into oblivion.

This would be a better option for the former owners of Purdue Pharma as well, because crap like this leads to people playing Super Mario Brothers oligarchs.