Author: Matthew Dessem / Source: Slate Magazine
America has no shortage of evil billionaires, but the Sackler family has managed to build their fortune on the backs of other people’s suffering in a way that makes Bezos and DeVoss look like absolute pikers, and until recently, they did it relatively quietly. The details on exactly how many killings it takes to make a killing—and the way the family has laundered its reputation by letting a few drops of blood money trickle down to respectable institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art—were outlined in chilling detail in the New Yorker last fall. But New Yorker readers are a pretty small portion of the country compared to, say, The Late Show With Steven Colbert, so it seems worth noting that Colbert devoted a portion of his show this week to calling out the Sacklers by name:
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