{"id":6532,"date":"2025-06-16T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/momentous-and-insufficient-ags-support-7-4-billion-purdue-pharma-settlement\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:37:59","slug":"momentous-and-insufficient-ags-support-7-4-billion-purdue-pharma-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/momentous-and-insufficient-ags-support-7-4-billion-purdue-pharma-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Momentous and Insufficient:&#039; AGs Support $7.4 Billion Purdue Pharma Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;What we announce today is both momentous and insufficient, the culmination of years of tumultuous negotiations and legal battles all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court,&#8221; Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said. &#8220;Today, every single attorney general, representing all states and territories nationwide, has signed onto an historic settlement that permanently ends the Sacklers&#8217; control over Purdue and their ability to ever sell opioids again, and forces the company and the family to pay $7.4 billion for their role in igniting one of the most devastating public health crises in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-top:0.2em\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png\" style=\"border:0;margin:0;padding:0\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">&#160;<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fblike20.png\" style=\"border:0;margin:0;padding:0\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">&#160;<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/pinterest20.png\" style=\"border:0;margin:0;padding:0\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">&#160;<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/stumble20.png\" style=\"border:0;margin:0;padding:0\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">&#160;<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png\" style=\"border:0;margin:0;padding:0\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">&#160;<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png\" style=\"border:0;margin:0;padding:0\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">&nbsp;&#160;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What we announce today is both momentous and insufficient, the culmination of years of tumultuous negotiations and legal battles all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6320,2051,1370,6321,1835,2520,399,3653],"class_list":["post-6532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-039momentous","tag-ags","tag-billion","tag-insufficient039","tag-pharma","tag-purdue","tag-settlement","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}