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GEOFF MULVIHILL

This July 19, 2001 file photo shows OxyContin tablets at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vermont. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
January 23, 2025, 8:44 pm
Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4bn in settlement over the toll of OxyContin
Sackler family to pay $6.5 billion and lose company, Purdue itself to pay $900 million, in settlement announced by NY Attorney General Letitia James after years of litigation
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
A headline about then US president Donald Trump is displayed outside Fox News studios in New York on November 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
April 19, 2023, 2:48 am
Fox settles with Dominion for $787 million for promoting 2020 election lies
News company reaches deal to avert a trial in case that exposed how network chased viewers by broadcasting false claims about Biden’s win
By David Bauder, Randall Chase and GEOFF MULVIHILL
A Teva Pharmaceuticals logistics center in Shoham, January 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)
July 27, 2022, 10:34 pm
Israeli drug company Teva reaches $4.3 billion settlement in US opioid lawsuits
Generic drugmaker says it agreed to contribute sum in cash and medications to states, local governments and tribes for its role in epidemic
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Illustrative: Protesters stage a die-in and have their shapes traced on the sidewalk outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, New York, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
March 4, 2022, 4:16 am
Sacklers to pay $6 billion, lose Purdue Pharma in deal to avoid opioid civil suits
Some criticize settlement, which leaves amount to go to victims of addictive OxyContin unchanged while shielding family from further attempts to make them pay for crisis
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and John Seewer
A health care worker, left, checks people in at a NYC mobile vaccine clinic in Midtown Manhattan, Dec. 6, 2021 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
December 18, 2021, 9:49 am
US federal appeals court reinstates Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses
Decision overrules separate court that paused mandate nationwide; employees who aren’t fully vaccinated will need masks, weekly tests; Republican, conservative groups to appeal
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and Andrew DeMillo
Illustrative: "Pill Mann" made by Frank Huntley of Worcester, Massachusetts, from his opioid prescription pill bottles, is displayed during a protest by advocates for opioid victims outside the Department of Justice, December 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
December 18, 2021, 5:51 am
Uncertainty follows US court’s rejection of Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Parents who lost children to addiction split on decision to overturn deal that would have prevented future lawsuits against Sackler family: ‘I want them to know what it feels like’
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Illustrative: In this photo from August 17, 2018, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
December 1, 2021, 2:39 am
US states say Sackler family is abusing bankruptcy process in OxyContin case
Group of states urge judge to reject settlement for owners of Purdue Pharma, saying it grants improper protections after family took out more than $10 billion from company
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
In this Aug. 9, 2021, file photo, Jayde Newton helps to set up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, N.Y. A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday, Sept. 1, gave conditional approval to a sweeping, potentially $10 billion plan submitted by OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to settle a mountain of lawsuits over its role in the opioid crisis that has killed a half-million Americans over the past two decades. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
September 2, 2021, 2:23 am
Sacklers to pay $4.5 billion, dissolve Purdue Pharma in opioid settlement
Judge gives conditional approval to deal that will shield Sackler family from further payments and civil lawsuits; profits from new company to go to treat addiction
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Fake pill bottles with messages about Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, New York, August, 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
August 19, 2021, 12:21 pm
Ex-Purdue Pharma head Richard Sackler denies responsibility for opioid crisis
In court hearing, he says he does not recall telling employees in 1996 that there will be ‘a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition’
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Purdue Pharma offices in Stamford, Connecticut, on May 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File)
July 28, 2020, 11:07 pm
US judge: Bankrupt Purdue Pharma must halt some political contributions
OxyContin maker has given $185,000 to political groups after declaring bankruptcy last year
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Crew members of the HMS Bounty, including Clark Gable (left) as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton (right) as Captain Bligh, in the 1935 film version of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty. (MGM)
April 14, 2020, 9:14 pm
As governors push back at ‘total authority,’ Trump sees ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’
‘A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain,’ Trump tweets
By Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller and GEOFF MULVIHILL
US President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
April 14, 2020, 3:01 am
Trump says it’s his call when to ease virus restrictions, not governors’
US leader has been anxious to leave crisis behind him, but state chiefs say it’s not yet time to relaunch economy, and it’s not clear president has authority to force their hand
By Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller and GEOFF MULVIHILL
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein speaks to reporters in Raleigh, North Carolina, August 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Emery Dalesio, File)
October 19, 2019, 12:13 pm
Local governments reject opioid settlement from Teva, other drugmakers
As states, localities tussle over terms of agreement, pharmaceutical firms say they’re unwilling to raise $48 billion offer
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
ILLUSTRATIVE -- A skeleton of pill bottles stands with protesters outside a courthouse on Aug. 2, 2019, in Boston where a judge was to hear arguments in Massachusetts' lawsuit against Purdue Pharma over its role in the national drug epidemic (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
October 17, 2019, 12:16 pm
Teva, other opioid makers and distributors press for settlement as trial looms
Source says nationwide US agreement could be worth tens of billions of dollars; Israeli manufacturer would contribute some $15 billion in overdose antidotes, treatment drugs
By Mark Gillispie and GEOFF MULVIHILL
In this September 12, 2019, file photo, cars pass Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
October 6, 2019, 7:31 am
Purdue opioid deal blasted as records show $13b. to Sacklers
Many local governments suing pharmaceutical giant over role in opioid crisis say settlement offer doesn’t hold owners accountable for over 400,000 overdose deaths
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
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