Right down here this was government housing and I went to school with these kids and when we had that 24 people overdose in 3 hours, it was sold from right there on that corner to people, and within 3 hours, 24 people overdosed.
Until you've picked up one of your own and put them in a body bag, you know, how do you put a number on that?
Somebody has to freaking pay for this.
This wasn't an accident that happened.
This was part of a complex business plan to sell as much opium in America as possible.
So I filed a lawsuit against the distributors, and it was the first of its kind.
With this case, I'm representing in my entire home community.
Now I'm suddenly feeling like I can make a big difference.
He's gone from, you know, a very good lawyer in West Virginia to now a national very good lawyer.
That's a big jump.
You believe that the actions that you or your company took contributed to the opioid epidemic, yes or no... and if it's not either one— - No.
No, sir.
I do not believe that we contributed to the opioid crisis.
What the defendants have done in this case is they have marked everything confidential, because they don't want the country to see what they did and what they knew they were doing.
I'm going to expose to the entire country exactly what's happened for the past 20 years.
If my legal theory is right, I'm going to introduce them to the misery they caused.