Pow­er­ful pack of sen­a­tors push­es DOJ for a crim­i­nal probe of Sack­ler­s' role in opi­oid epi­dem­ic

In the on­go­ing saga of events re­volv­ing around Pur­due Phar­ma, Oxy­Con­tin and the Sack­ler fam­i­ly, there were quite a few peo­ple who thought that the Sack­ler fam­i­ly should be held more ac­count­able. And now, a pow­er­ful group of sen­a­tors is push­ing for a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion of the Sack­ler’s role.

In a let­ter dat­ed yes­ter­day ad­dressed to US at­tor­ney gen­er­al Mer­rick Gar­land, a group of 7 De­mo­c­rat sen­a­tors — in­clud­ing Richard Blu­men­thal, Ed Markey and Eliz­a­beth War­ren — wrote that Pur­due’s set­tle­ment and plead­ing guilty to three felonies re­lat­ed to Oxy­Con­tin sales and mar­ket­ing are “lit­tle so­lace for the mil­lions who lost their lives and liveli­hoods at the hands of Pur­due and the in­di­vid­u­als at its helm—the Sack­ler fam­i­ly.”

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