A letter!
https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1428031276058128392?s=21
It’s not news that LEOs rely on help from the public to solve crimes.
If you look at the list of 12 folks that overcontributed, I see 3 that got trapped in the “recurring payments grift” based on multiple transactions occurring on the same day of the month.
Reminder, this family gets to keep at least $10 billion. The judge is going to approve this and shield them from literally any future lawsuits about anything. Law!
“Do you have any responsibility for the opioid crisis in the United States?”
“No,” Dr. Sackler, 76, replied faintly.
“Does the Sackler family have any responsibility for the opioid crisis in the United States?”
Again, “No.”
And finally:
“Does Purdue Pharma have any responsibility for the opioid crisis in the United States?”
More firmly: “No.”
“Are you going to be personally contributing any of your own assets to the settlement payments over the next nine or 10 years?” Dr. Sackler was asked.
“I don’t know,” he replied. “I don’t believe that’s been decided yet.”
Shit like this makes think the torture memos of the Bush2 admin were right. They were just used against the wrong people.
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If you rope this guy with the Lasso of Truth he gives the same answers.
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Meh, the point isn’t getting the proper answers. It’s retribution, punishment.
The law is just not equipped to deal with the situation, which is the point.
None of the Sacklers have been or ever will be charged criminally. Whether that’s a failure of legislators or prosecutors, I don’t care, that’s travesty #1.
But you think we could at least take their money somehow. Plaintiffs could easily rack up enough verdicts to actually bankrupt these assholes. Now, it would require some actual work - you’d have to get the money out of trusts and foreign banks, and pursue them probably for decades. But why do that when you can get a quick $4.5 billion and call it a day?
Prosecutors are a lot like the media. Constantly puffing themselves up about their vital role in a high functioning society, but there’s just absolutely nothing actually there. Just endless arrogance and failure, with absolutely zero accountability, ever.
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Totally agree with you, but the really obvious answer here is just tax the fuck out of them and all the other billionaires so that they don’t have this power imbalance that destroys any hope of justice. Trying to sue the billionaires for things they did that were bad to make their billions is such a timid centrist approach along the lines of treating brain tumors with a few aspirin every day to see if it makes the headache go away. Just whiffing on the root cause altogether.
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who are the plaintiffs who are going to rack up damages? everyone who overdosed?
This is as standard a belief system in Big Law as the election being stolen is in your Aunt Karen’s church.
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1428061327021457417?s=21
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1428063054290427919?s=21
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1428063844132401156?s=21
Weird this profession is a perennial leader in the addiction and suicide prevalence rankings.
Lawyer I follow:
Has Milhiser ever done a jury trial in his life??? This is some of the most idiotic “advice” in the history of man.
Lol. Law school is the dumbest time in life you will ever face. Only idiots obsess over it. It will never make you a good lawyer.
“Make work [in law school] your default state”? What a fucking joke. Make skiing your default state, and quit taking yourself so seriously.
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I have literally never heard a single person suggest that Law School was worthwhile or even theoretically justified. From what I can tell, the only reason it takes three years is to make grads feel pot-committed to the only career that recognizes the degree.
Ever seen someone try to act as their own lawyer?
People with Facebook University law degrees are as woefully inept as people with Facebook University epidemiology degrees.
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Susan Collins is a judge now, apparently.
Notwithstanding her concerns, Jackson accepted Simon’s guilty plea.
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They relocated to white plains to get the correct judge. It’s all gross.
WTF is a “stay away order”? A quick google shows it used similarly as a restraining order with more teeth. But the way it reads there is like they trespassed him from the entire city of DC and I’m pretty sure that would violate Constitutional rights. IANAL.
Your average drug addict that steals food from Wal Mart spends more than 90 days in jail. These sentences are sending a very clear message that there’s no real reason not to try again.
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