Raimondo Announces She Will Give Political Donations From Sacklers, After GoLocal Investigation
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Governor Gina Raimondo announced Friday that she is donating the $12,500 that she had received in campaign contributions from Jonathan Sackler and his wife Mary Corson — Sackler has been named in lawsuits for his direct involvement in the opioid crisis in America.
Sackler and his family own Purdue Pharma the manufacturer Oxycodone.
GoLocal has written more than twenty stories related to the link between Raimondo and the Sackler family.
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Raimondo made the comments during a radio interview with Gene Valicenti on Ask the Governor on WPRO AM.
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Lawsuits are piling up against opioid maker Purdue Pharma. Documents unveiled show the family who owns the company had direct involvement with the sales strategy that led to the national health crisis and helped build their massive fortune. Documents also reveal that one of the target markets that the Sacklers' company zeroed in on with its sales and marketing was U.S. military veterans.
According to the lawsuit filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Sackers were directly involved in the Purdue Pharma marketing strategy — a strategy that more than 1,600 lawsuits across the country allege was fraudulent and has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
On Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James dropped a bombshell as she filed the nation’s most extensive lawsuit against Purdue Pharma opioid manufacturers, the Sackler Family, for their role “in the opioid epidemic that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and devastated families and communities.”
The billionaire Sackler family allegedly transferred funds from Purdue Pharma and the affiliated Rhode Island-based generic manufacturing company drugmaker Rhodes Pharmaceuticals LP into various entities that family members control through trusts, according to the amended lawsuit.
Raimondo said that the monies would be donated to a Rhode Island parents organization of those that lost children to opioid abuse.
This story was first published 3/29/19 12:16 PM
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