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Recently in the news: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/sacklers-purdue-opioids.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/sacklers-purdue-op...

• Aloha 7y ago
  Yes, the article points out that the transfers were several years ago
• loeg 7y ago
  People keep misreading this, or maybe just looking at the headline and getting the wrong impression. The news in that piece is that NY discovered the transfers at all. The transfers themselves are a decade old. The payments to the Sacklers from Purdue are from 2008-2016 but the lawsuits only date to 2018. All of this is in the article if you read it. I.e., no self-payments after lawsuits became material threat.
  • casefields 7y ago
    "Sackler was involved in 137 wire transfers totaling nearly $20 million, and some of those transfers occurred as recently as 2018, the filing indicates." Who's misreading what now?
    • loeg 7y ago
      mcbain's comment that I am replying to, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981242 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981242 , is referring to the NYTimes story on $1B in transfers. Those substantial transfers ($1B) were a decade ago. The sentence you quote does not appear in the NYTimes piece and is, in comparison, peanuts. I do not have access to the Bloomberg piece for full context, but the sentence you quote does not say the movements were self-payments from Purdue rather than just personal transfers between personal accounts. It also does not say all $20M was in 2018; there could be a $1k wire in 2018 for all we know from the single sentence.
• Scoundreller 7y ago
  And you can find a lot of the trusts on the Panama Papers. Law firm appeared to be Appleby.