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Having smuggled billions into offshore havens, the Sacklers began to close out the store stateside. They divested themselves of Purdue, entered a guilty plea on its behalf, and engineered a highly unusual bankruptcy for the company.

The company opened a shell office in White Plains, NY, where the only bankruptcy judge is Robert Drain, an SDNY judge with a reputation for billionaire-friendly bankruptcy deals.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/23/a-bankrupt-process/#sacklers

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