Under pressure from people impacted by the nation's ongoing opioid crisis, a New York judge has confirmed Gil Kerlikowske, a former national drug czar in the Obama administration, as an outside monitor over Endo International's opioid business. The Chester County drug firm is reorganizing in bankruptcy court.
Endo will pay him as much as $25,000 a month, according to court documents.
"This is straight out of the Purdue playbook," said Temple University law professor Jonathan Lipson.
