What makes you think it's outlandish? It's certainly possible that it's a approximate monetary evaluation of the harm caused.
(A dollar bill is .0043in thick, so unless imperial unit-challenged me messed up doing the conversions, it should be almost 2/3 of the way from Earth to The Moon.)
This would be awfully inconvenient, though - if you use $100 bills instead, you'd have a still very inconvenient, but more manageable stack of 1,500 miles.
More manageable still would be to just put the ones in a warehouse - they'd require 88M cubic feet of space, or a cube with sides of 445ft. It should fit nicely inside the Saturn V Vehicle Assembly Building.
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.
That totals $1.57T over 20 years and is purely economic, and doesn't include any value of human life.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdos...
We estimate it has caused 2,2T in damage and are seeking 100B.
They are obviously very smart people and haven’t done it like this for a reason.