Purdue Pharma to plead guilty to felony OxyContin-marketing fraud; $8.3B settlement
Purdue Pharma agreed to plead guilty to three felony charges (conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to violate anti-kickback statute) with an $8.3B total resolution comprising a $2B criminal forfeiture, $3.544B criminal fine, $2.8B civil False Claims Act resolution. Sackler family members separately paid $225M civil to resolve associated FCA claims. Resolution did not provide individual criminal accountability for Sackler family members despite documented evidence of their direct involvement in deceptive-marketing strategy decisions.