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Son of Richard Sackler
- CEO of Purdue Pharma 1999 According to Massachusetts Attorney General
- worked at Purdue Pharma Senior vice president responsible for sales, at the OxyContin launch According to Massachusetts Attorney General
- board member of Purdue Pharma (Member of the board of directors) 2012–2018
Sackler family: False Claims Act settlement
- Settled with U.S. Department of Justice: a civil settlement resolving allegations only, with no determination of liability 1
Connections 9
son of
- Richard Sackler Primary record 2
board member of
- Purdue Pharma 2012–2018 Member of the board of directors Primary record 2
settled with
- U.S. Department of Justice 21 Oct 2020 a civil settlement resolving allegations only, with no determination of liability Primary record 1
involved in
- Evolve to Excellence (2013) named in the 2020 Justice Department settlement as having approved it (an allegation; no determination of liability) According to U.S. Department of Justice Primary record 1
- House Oversight hearing on Purdue and the Sacklers (2020) witness Primary record 2
- Massachusetts complaint against Purdue and the Sacklers (2019) named defendant Primary record 3
- Victims address the Sacklers in bankruptcy court (2022) on screen throughout; silent, according to NPR Scholarship & press 4
- Sackler family civil settlement (2020) one of the "Named Sacklers"; allegations only Primary record 1
- Purdue payouts to the Sackler family (2008 to 2016) agreed under oath the family took out about $10 billion in 2008 to 2018, "about half" paid in taxes; confirmed writing the 17 May 2007 "We’re rich" email; disputes the "milking" reading Primary record 2
Timeline 2 dates
- 2012–2018 David Sackler board member of Purdue Pharma
- 21 Oct 2020 David Sackler settled with U.S. Department of Justice
Proof 4 sources
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Justice Department Announces Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations with Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma and Civil Settlement with Members of the Sackler Family, U.S. Department of Justice, 21 Oct 2020.
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Archived copy
Under a separate civil settlement, individual members of the Sackler family will pay the United States $225 million arising from the alleged conduct of Dr. Richard Sackler, David Sackler, Mortimer D.A. Sackler, Dr. Kathe Sackler, and Jonathan Sackler (the Named Sacklers).
There has been no determination of liability in the civil matters.
The Named Sacklers then approved a new marketing program beginning in 2013 called “Evolve to Excellence,” through which Purdue sales representatives intensified their marketing of OxyContin to extreme, high-volume prescribers
arising from the alleged conduct of Dr. Richard Sackler, David Sackler, Mortimer D.A. Sackler, Dr. Kathe Sackler, and Jonathan Sackler (the Named Sacklers)
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The Role of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family in the Opioid Epidemic (hearing transcript, Committee on Oversight and Reform), U.S. House of Representatives, via GovInfo, 17 Dec 2020.
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Mr. Sackler, I would like to ask you about an email your father, Dr. Richard Sackler, sent in March 2008.
I know my father has both apologized for these words
I joined the Purdue board of directors in 2012 and served as the director until 2018.
David Sackler, Former Member of the Board of Directors, Purdue Pharma L.P.
I believe it’s approximately $10 billion.
And, of that money, about half was paid in taxes.
What do you think is going on in all these courtrooms right now? We’re rich. For how long? Until which suit get through to the family?
I believe so, yes.
I can’t recall those specific conversations. However, I disagree with your assertion of even what “milking the company” meant in that context.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Purdue Pharma L.P. et al., First Amended Complaint and Jury Demand (complete unredacted version), Massachusetts Superior Court, Suffolk County (filed by the Massachusetts Attorney General), 31 Jan 2019.
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PURDUE PHARMA L.P., PURDUE PHARMA INC., RICHARD SACKLER, THERESA SACKLER, KATHE SACKLER, JONATHAN SACKLER, MORTIMER D.A. SACKLER, BEVERLY SACKLER, DAVID SACKLER
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Victims of the opioid crisis formally confront the Sackler family, NPR Morning Edition (via LAist), 11 Mar 2022.
Scholarship & press
David Sackler and Theresa Sackler were visible the entire time on screen.
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