![]() ![]() Expecting detailed answers, Keefe instead received a one-and-a-half-page letter over a month later. They sent a list of 100 queries for corroboration to the two branches of the family that owned Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma. ![]() He ended up hiring a fact-checker who had helped proofread former US president Barack Obama’s recent memoir. “They chose to deal with me through lawyers, mainly, who were quite menacing,” he said. Unsurprisingly, none of the family spoke with Keefe during the writing of the book. Here’s my testimony from yesterday’s congressional hearing on efforts to hold the Sackler family accountable for their role in the opioid crisis. During his testimony, Keefe lobbied to have legal loopholes closed that he said help the Sacklers escape significant fallout from Purdue Pharma’s offenses. Keefe worked on his manuscript against the ongoing backdrop of legal battles against the Sacklers, and himself testified in front of a House Oversight Committee earlier this month. Its name remains on many institutions across the world, a list that includes Harvard University, the Smithsonian and even the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Yet the family is still worth $11 billion. Purdue Pharma is now bankrupt and has twice pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges. “The family, by the second or third generation, is very, very out of touch with reality, as reality is experienced by most people in the world,” he said. Keefe also notes the excesses of a family whose net worth numbers in the billions. A lawyer by training, Keefe laments that the Sacklers have been able to retain high-priced attorneys to defend themselves against opioid-related lawsuits, including prominent names from both major political parties - from former Obama attorney general Eric Holder to previous Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. ![]()
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