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It's harder than you might expect for charities to give back tainted money

  • Written by Terri Lynn Helge, Professor of Law, Texas A&M University
Anti-opioid protest at the Harvard Art Museums, which the Sackler family has supported with charitable gifts.Jon Shaffer, CC BY-SA

The activist group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now, or PAIN, is organizing protests across the country at museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Sackler wing in New York City, Washington’s...

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