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Purdue Pharma's Bankruptcy Plan Is Approved, Allowing the Sackler Family to Escape Legal Accountability for the Opioid Crisis

A major push to hold the Sackler family legally accountable for their role in the opioid crisis essentially ended today when a U.S. Bankruptcy Court ruled that the family’s company, Purdue Pharma, creators of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, would be dissolved and the family owners would pay $4.5 billion to …

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Ghislaine Maxwell Faces Sex Trafficking Charges

UPDATE (4/23): Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty to the additional charges of sex trafficking in the federal case against her Friday, which also marked the British socialite’s first in-court appearance since her July 2020 arrest, Reuters reports. – Federal prosecutors on Monday expanded their case against Ghislaine Maxwell, former associate …

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Cop Who Shot Daunte Wright Charged With Manslaughter

Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright was charged with second-degree manslaughter, Wednesday April 14th. According to a statement from the office of Washington County Attorney, Pete Orput, Potter was taken into custody by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Wednesday. A …

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