Family-controlled board approves dividends to family trusts during opioid crisis litigation; ~$10.7B extracted 2008-2017 per court-monitor and state AG findings. Purdue files Chapter 11 in 2019; the reorganization plan would have channelled victim claims into a settlement trust and released individual Sacklers — who had not filed for personal bankruptcy — from related civil liability. SCOTUS strikes the releases in June 2024.
Closure integrity: this loop's least-confident edge is secondary — the closure claim is only as strong as that edge.
