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Why Were Insys Therapeutics, Inc. and CEO John Kapoor Indicted and Not The Sacklers and Purdue Pharma? A Retrospective Look Back to the 2018 Insys Criminal Indictments

Consumer Protection , Current Litigation , Opioid Crisis August 26, 2021

Why Were Insys Therapeutics, Inc. and CEO John Kapoor Indicted and Not The Sacklers and Purdue Pharma? A Retrospective Look Back to the 2018 Insys Criminal Indictments  The Opioid Crisis Behind The Scenes by Mark A. York (June 8, 2018 original date) (revised with additional comments August 25, 2021) Subsys – an Insys Therapeutics, Inc. Pharmaceutical […]

Endo International and Arnold Porter Opioid Discovery Abuses

Consumer Protection , Current Litigation , Opioid Crisis August 18, 2021

    by Mark York, Editor Endo International’s opioid defense counsel Arnold & Porter,  is facing  civil contempt charges in the New York state court opioid trial currently underway In Re Opioids Litigation, Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Jerry Garguilo. Reflecting the gravity of the issue, Arnold & Porter has hired lawyers from three powerhouse commercial firms including Steptoe […]

OPIOID TRIAL TRIFECTA IS HERE

Opioid Crisis April 26, 2021

Trials in California, West Virginia and New York – Opioid Big Pharma Trial Strategy: “Deny The Opioid Crisis Ever Existed” PROFITS BEFORE PATIENTS The Santa Clara, Orange and Los Angeles County Opioid lawsuits, filed in May 2014, allege that the defendants—including opioid manufacturers Purdue Pharma L.P., Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Endo Health Solutions, Inc., and Actavis […]

Opioid Litigation Hearing

Opioid Crisis January 20, 2021

January 20th, 2021 Opioid Litigation Hearing Live from Suffolk County Court. Please follow the link below to access today’s Suffolk County New York Opioid Litigation Pre-trial hearing via MassTortNews.Live virtual streaming scheduled for Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Live streaming of hearing password is 1105.  Click here for the LIVE feed http://wowza.nycourts.gov/VirtualCourt/st-suf.php?room=st-suf-2.

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family Created the Opioid Crisis in America: “The Oxy Express”

Opioid Crisis February 5, 2020

Why are the Sacklers worth $13 billion today? “The Oxy Express” explained. See Richard Sackler’s Unsealed Deposition Transcript in Kentucky vs. Purdue Pharma (2015). See Purdue Frederick Co. (not Purdue Pharma) Criminal Guilty Plea Outline May 9, 2007 (USDC Virginia). Mass Tort News February 4, 2020 COMPARISON OF OXYCODONE PRESCRIBING In the first six months […]

Rudy Giuliani Was DC Back-Office Fixer That Let Purdue Pharma (OxyContin) Slip Out Of A 2006 Criminal Indictment

Opioid Crisis January 31, 2020

Richard Sackler Unsealed Deposition Transcript in Kentucky vs. Purdue: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5745212-Deposition.html (2015) See the Purdue Frederick Co. (not Purdue Pharma) Criminal Guilty Plea Outline May 9, 2007 (USDC Virginia) How was Purdue Pharma able to slip through the 2006 criminal indictment noose and continue to market, sell and prescribe Oxycontin for another 10 years? Giuliani and GW […]

Why Does the FDA Ignore “Off-Label” Drug Marketing While Thousands Die Every Year?

Current Litigation , Opioid Crisis October 19, 2019

Profits Before Patients is the FDA-Big Pharma Shared Model “BY REMOVING FDA OVERSIGHT BIG PHARMA WAS ALLOWED TO PROFIT FROM LIES” (October 19, 2019) (MASS TORT NEWS)  Starting in 2017 and continuing into the foreseeable future, Big Pharma has been fighting major legal battles related to off-label marketing of drugs for unintended uses. They also […]