Purdue Pharma → Sackler Family → Offshore Trusts

Documented totalUSD $10.70B

As of2023-01-01

Confidence[PRIMARY]

// Source

Purdue Pharma generated over $35 billion in OxyContin revenue after securing an FDA label that facilitated mass prescribing. The Sackler family extracted over $10 billion in distributions before the company filed for bankruptcy amid 600,000+ opioid overdose deaths. Significant wealth was moved to offshore trusts and shell entities ahead of litigation.

// Flow Diagram

// Hops

Fee / consulting payment · secondary · 1995-12-01

Purdue Pharma → US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

USD $2.40M (Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) application and annual fees for OxyContin NDA and supplemental applications)

PDUFA Fee Schedule ↗

Dividend · primary · 2019-01-01

Purdue Pharma → Sackler Family

USD $10.70B (Total Sackler family distributions from Purdue Pharma 1996-2019, per House Oversight Committee findings)

House Oversight Committee: Sackler family distributions from Purdue Pharma ↗

Other (see note) · secondary · 2018-06-01

Sackler Family → Sackler Family Trusts (Offshore)

USD $1.00B (Wire transfers to offshore trusts and entities in the Channel Islands, Bermuda, and other jurisdictions, identified during bankruptcy proceedings)

⛔ Vanish point — Trust with unnamed beneficiary

Over $1 billion was transferred to trusts and entities in offshore jurisdictions (Channel Islands, Bermuda) where beneficial ownership disclosure is not required. The exact structure of the receiving trusts, their beneficiaries, and subsequent distributions remain undisclosed. Court-appointed examiners identified the transfers but could not trace funds past the initial offshore entities.

[PUBLIC COST ESTIMATE]

At least $10.7B in documented public funds flow through entities connected to this profile.

$10.7BContract Value

1Money Chains

2Traced Hops

Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

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// Methodology

How amounts are sourced. Dollar figures are drawn from public disclosure filings: USASpending.gov for federal contracts, FEC filings for political contributions, SEC EDGAR for corporate disclosures, LD-2 lobbying registrations for lobbying expenditures, and Congressional records for appropriations. Each hop carries its own citations linking to the primary filing. Where an amount is unavailable (classified contracts, private transactions), the hop is marked "undisclosed" rather than estimated.

About vanish points. A vanish point marks the node at which the money trail goes dark. Each marker carries a typed reason from a fixed taxonomy (shell company, offshore jurisdiction, undisclosed beneficial owner, etc) and a curator note describing what is and isn't known. Vanish points are highlighted in red in the flow diagram above. They are evidence of opacity, not endpoints — every reason is a documented systemic feature of the disclosure regime that prevents further tracing.

Confidence tiers. Each hop and chain carries a confidence rating: primary (sourced directly from official filings), secondary (sourced from reporting or derived records), or inferential (existence is established but details are reconstructed from indirect evidence).

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