Purdue steered over $13B directly to the Sackler family by aggressively marketing opiates, misinforming doctors and the public about their dangers, and giving medical software companies kickbacks to push more addictive long-release versions of their opiates to doctors.
One company, Allscripts, was able to pay $145M to resolve criminal and civil kickback allegations [2].
They directly killed over 400,000 people between 1999 and 2017 and indirectly killed many more/caused unimaginable human suffering.
The family is proposing to pay $3B over 7 years and an additional $1.5B by selling off another company they own.
This is the real opiate crisis jackpot and the high-scale, high-powered, industrialized version of the crimes that are happening on the dark web.
I'm sure there are more large companies and high powered individuals involved and agree that the 200 arrests/$6M is an infinitely tiny drop in the bucket, but it's way easier to prove and stick than the larger operations.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-bankruptcy-...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigati...