Purdue Pharma Sentencing Postponed to Handle Surge of Victims

Purdue Pharma LP’s federal court sentencing stemming from the drug company’s historic, multibillion-dollar plea to fraud and conspiracy charges was postponed for a week to give opioid addiction victims and their families greater opportunity to speak.

Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey revised plans to hold a virtual hearing Tuesday where hundreds of attendees logged on to take part in a de facto public reckoning over the scourge of addiction and overdose tied to Purdue’s flagship painkiller, Oxycontin, and other opioids.

“I’m trying to find a compromise and a fair solution ...