Pharma Police
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🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The DOJ announced an $8.3 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma yesterday for illegally marketing their painkiller Oxycontin. The settlement doesn’t prevent members of the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, from criminal liability and there is still a criminal case pending.
Protests continue in Nigeria against a notorious police unit called SARS, which has been accused of corruption, violence and other forms of abuse. Earlier this week, security forces fired on a crowd of protesters, reportedly killing several people and injuring others.
And in headlines: lawyers unable to find parents of 545 children who were separated under Trump immigration policy, Big Ten mayors ask conference organizers to be COVID-cautious, and another Quick Bites the dust.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, October 22nd. I'm Kila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Rennstein and this is what a day where we are glad that one of our cardinal rules for life is to never be alone in a room with Rudy Giuliani. |
| 0:16.5 | Yes, it's something I tell myself in the mirror every day and yesterday was a reminder that I should just never stop doing that. |
| 0:22.0 | Rudy, listen to me. You are not welcome in either of the respective wide-work-from-home studios. |
| 0:27.0 | Or like within 500 feet to be completely honest. |
| 0:34.5 | On today's show, what's going on with police brutality protests in Nigeria, then some headlines? |
| 0:39.0 | But first the latest. |
| 0:41.0 | I folks, I'm Mel Brooks and behind me you see my son and my grandson and they can't be with me. |
| 0:50.0 | Why? Because of this coronavirus. |
| 0:54.0 | And Donald Trump's not going to damn thing about it. |
| 0:57.0 | Wow, he's not wrong. |
| 0:59.0 | So that was Mel Brooks, officially endorsing Joe Biden for president in a very sweet video from his kitchen. |
| 1:05.0 | We've got Mel making videos. We've got AOC streaming on Twitch. So shout out to Among Us fans. |
| 1:10.0 | We've got Obama making speeches on the trail all in the last couple of days. |
| 1:14.0 | So it's very exciting times. |
| 1:16.0 | And by the way, there is a presidential debate tonight. |
| 1:19.0 | So if you want to watch that, don't do it alone. |
| 1:21.0 | Watch it with us at Cricket.com slash debate where we're going to be streaming the whole thing live with fact checks and commentary. |
| 1:26.0 | And if you missed that, we're going to have a little recap for you tomorrow morning. |
| 1:30.0 | It's the last debate. Y'all, we made it. We somehow survived. So feel good about that. |
| 1:34.0 | Yep. |
| 1:35.0 | But in other news, the Justice Department announced a massive multi-billion dollar settlement with the pharmaceutical company, Pardew Pharma, yesterday. |
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