New York – As we reported earlier on the guilty plea by Executives of Powerful Addictive Painkiller OxyContin to misleading the public about the drug’s risk of addiction.
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Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin.
Giuliani personally met with the head of the DEA when the DEA’s drug diversion office began a criminal investigation into the company.
According to the book “Painkiller,” by New York Times reporter Barry Meier, both Giuliani and his then-partner Bernard Kerik “were in direct contact with Asa Hutchinson, the administrator of DEA.” [abcnews]
He’s a lawyer and not acting above the law by representing a potentially guilty party. That is the company’s right by law.
Guiliani involved in this mess?? What a GREAT PRESIDENT he would NOT make, another national-scale drug peddler like so many of the others. I hope someone reads this who is affiliated with the company, which is guilty of pushing this highly addictive drug on the market. It HAS caused hopeless addiction in the last 11 years to so many bright, beautiful INDIVIDUALS; you people have bleak consciences to not have cared enough for other people as if they were YOUR own children, wives, parents, etc. Many more people have been affected by your heartlessness than the addicts you created; the poor families, loved ones, and friends who had to suffer the horrible decline in productivity and mental faculties that drug addicts go through; having to suffer a loved one stealing from them for drugs one is so terribly addicted to. When you fail to see the importance and uniqueness of each person, you are losing your humanity. Shame on your company. No amount of money can bring back the dead, and your slap on the wrist punishment will not make you see how erronious you were.
So?