It definitely should be the case that the idiots who stayed with Purdue for years would be punished for doing so...punished by not having a job. Too bad more hiring managers aren't like you.
From what I've seen, these Purdue idiots have gone on to do quite well in their careers. It's truly a shame.
Karma is a bitch, though, and at some point, their unethical behavior will catch up with them and they will pay. BIG!
A Times Investigation
More than 1 million OxyContin pills ended up in the hands of criminals and addicts. What the drugmaker knew
By HARRIET RYAN, LISA GIRION AND SCOTT GLOVER
July 10, 2016
In the waning days of summer in 2008, a convicted felon and his business partner leased office space on a seedy block near MacArthur Park. They set up a waiting room, hired an elderly physician and gave the place a name that sounded like an ordinary clinic: Lake Medical.
The doctor began prescribing the opioid painkiller OxyContin – in extraordinary quantities. In a single week in September, she issued orders for 1,500 pills, more than entire pharmacies sold in a month. In October, it was 11,000 pills. By December, she had prescribed more than 73,000, with a street value of nearly $6 million.
At its headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, tracked the surge in prescriptions. A sales manager went to check out the clinic and the company launched an investigation. It eventually concluded that Lake Medical was working with a corrupt pharmacy in Huntington Park to obtain large quantities of OxyContin.
“Shouldn’t the DEA be contacted about this?” the sales manager, Michele Ringler, told company officials in a 2009 email. Later that evening, she added, “I feel very certain this is an organized drug ring...”
Purdue did not shut off the supply of highly addictive OxyContin and did not tell authorities what it knew about Lake Medical until several years later when the clinic was out of business and its leaders indicted.
