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60 Minutes

Sunday, June 30, 2019

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Lawyers are claiming the makers and distributors of opioids should be held responsible for the growing epidemic. Bill Whitaker reports. Ben Ferencz is the only living prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials, which tried Nazi war crimes after World War II. Here's Lesley Stahl with his story. Anderson Cooper goes into the wild with photographer Thomas Mangelsen on this week's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal.

0:03.9

Our newest series looks at the Kids for Cash Scandal,

0:07.0

a story about two judges who stood accused of making millions of dollars

0:11.0

in a brazen scheme that shattered the lives of countless children.

0:14.6

Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you catch your podcasts.

0:19.1

The opioid overdoses have increased in the last, you know, 18 months have gone up.

0:31.2

Mike Moore helped engineer the historic 1998 settlement,

0:35.7

under which Big Tobacco had to pay out billions.

0:39.3

Now he's taking on opioid manufacturers and distributors.

0:43.8

If we want a verdict against these manufacturers and distributors, it could bankrupt.

0:48.4

They put him on the business.

0:49.6

Tonight, you'll hear evidence against the industry, which Moore calls damage.

0:55.0

He believes a jury will too.

0:57.7

You know what those jurors are going to do?

0:59.2

Like you're going to backroom, they're going to spend about 30 minutes thinking about it,

1:02.4

going to come back out and bam.

1:06.6

It's not often that you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben

1:11.6

Ferrance. He's 99 years old, barely five feet tall, and he's the last surviving prosecutor

1:19.2

of the Nuremberg Trials. Tonight, you'll hear his remarkable story.

1:24.0

And I start screaming. I said, look, I got here mass murder, mass murder on the parallel scale.

1:29.6

And he said, can you do this in addition to your other work?

1:32.0

And I said, sure. He said, okay, so you do it.

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