 while allowing the Sackler family, the company owners, to avoid liability. ABC's Terry Moran. Purdue Pharma, they're the makers of so many of the opioids that have scourged the country. There were years of negotiations to reach a $6 billion settlement with the victims of what the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma have acknowledged were improper practices, immoral practices that really killed a lot of Americans and damaged so many families. That settlement came before the U.S. bankruptcy trustee, who didn't like it. He said that the Sacklers essentially had been shielded personally.