NEW: Opioid firms kept donating to state AGs while negotiating settlements; as of June, the GOP and Democratic AG associations were still taking six figures from the companies that states are suing.
WASHINGTON — The top legal officials in dozens of states are suing drug companies and retailers for their role in, but as of June both the Republican Attorneys General Association and its Democratic counterpart were still taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from some of those companies.
DAGA, which represents 27 officials, got a total of $365,000 from defendants and PhRMA during the same time period. The Democratic group received $125,000 from Walmart, $100,000 from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, $50,000 from PhRMA and CVS, $25,000 from Cardinal Health, and $15,000 from Walgreens. Paul Nolette, an assistant professor of political science at Marquette University and an expert on state attorneys general, says he thinks the donations are meant to expand access."While the companies likely realize that some sort of broaders inevitable at this point, the donations might help gain additional access to the AGs at a critical moment in the investigation."
State and local officials began filing civil cases en masse against pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors in 2017. Retailers like Walmart and Walgreens were included in a few of the state suits and most of the city and county suits because their pharmacies filled prescriptions for opioids. Nearly 2,000 of the city and county suits have been combined into a single federal case that is scheduled to go to trial in Cleveland this October.
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