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3. Assuming there is a payment

of US $12 billion, who is this money going to?

Will it bring back the dead?

Will those parents - of whom I am one - who buried one of their children, be reimbursed for the funeral costs, and the pain and suffering that continues years later?

There are things money can't buy. The Sackler family need much more punishment than that. Multiple culpable homicide charges should be laid. There is definite negligence in not seeing potential problems from the start, and the head in the sand attitude while the problem grew.

It would have been so much better if the problem was seen much earlier, action taken, and those deaths avoided.