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AG objects to Pharma doling out bonuses

The state’s attorney general again is focusing on OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma after filing a lawsuit against the company in September.

This time, Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a legal objection to the company’s executives getting a multimillion dollar bonus.

Shapiro filed a joinder Thursday to the United States Trustee’s objection to Purdue’s authorization request for its $38 million dollar incentive, bonus and severance plans. Purdue’s request came just two weeks after declaring bankruptcy over the widespread litigation that pushed the company to seek Chapter 11 protection.

This latest move comes after Shapiro previously announced the lawsuit against the company and the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma.

“Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family’s greed seems to know no bounds,” Shapiro said in a prepared statement. “After declaring bankruptcy to try to shield themselves from liability for the opioid epidemic that they engineered, they now want to pay their company executives millions of dollars in bonuses.”

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