{"id":114813,"date":"2020-10-21T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T22:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-to-plead-to-3-criminal-charges"},"modified":"2020-10-21T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T22:22:55","slug":"oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-to-plead-to-3-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-to-plead-to-3-criminal-charges","title":{"rendered":"OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead to 3 criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-to-plead-to-3-criminal-charges3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/opioids\">opioid<\/a> epidemic, will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/7274018-Purdue-Pharma-Plea-Agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">plead<\/a> guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal does not release any of the company\u2019s executives or owners \u2014 members of the wealthy Sackler family \u2014 from criminal liability, and a criminal investigation is ongoing. Family members said they acted \u201cethically and lawfully,\u201d but some state attorneys general said the agreement fails to hold the Sacklers accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The company will plead guilty to three counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and violating federal anti-kickback laws, the officials said, and the agreement will be detailed in a bankruptcy court filing in federal court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The deal does not release any of the company\u2019s executives [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}