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San Francisco's David Sacks -- champion of the Drug War, opponent of Harm Reduction, supporter of Trump and ... an investor in a massive online pill mill that just got busted for $100 million fraud and is responsible for multiple overdose deaths sfstandard.com/2024/06/13/t...
SF startup CEO and president arrested in $100M illegal drug schemesfstandard.com Prosecutors allege that Done Global execs Ruthia He and David Brody sold 40 million pills of stimulants like Adderall, Vyvanse and Ritalin through their platform with few guardrails, leading to the ov...
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The same David Sacks who tried to convince that the FDIC against SVB wasn't an actual bailout. However it was worded, the Federal government bailed out depositors who had over $250k in an account. Shocked I tell you that he funds frauds.
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Hopefully he’s All In… for a lengthy prison term
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Very loud Trump and Putin supporter unlike most rich tech people who at least try to be subtle about it
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The prescribing doctors need to lose their licenses
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I'm really hoping that investing in a federal criminal conspiracy is as illegal as the conspiracy itself.
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Well, gee! Maybe if somebody actually did something about the DEA deliberately throttling the handful of legit sources of medication to try to save face after they fumbled the opioid crisis, people wouldn’t need to turn to scammers like this! 😡 nymag.com/intelligence...
The Empty Adderall Factorynymag.com A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.
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Seriously, I’ve been hearing friends and coworkers agonizing over how they’re gonna fill their/their kids’ prescriptions so they can get their lives back for months now. I have to agonize over whether I can fill my scrip on time because it’s never in stock. It’s pure sadism by the DEA at this point!
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Will he still be considered a Gray shirt? Or will he be banished like the Blues?
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Adderall, you don’t say…
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Isn’t he the guy who had that big fundraiser for Trump last week?
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This is one of those rare cases where I hope they throw the book at someone so hard it breaks both their spines.
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Sacks is one of the stupidest, most vicious anti-liberal tech lords.
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Oh Kara Swisher gonna tear him a new one
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She'll write about how she knew he was a bad egg all along (but just never said anything before).
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She's been torching him ever since Musk initiated the Twitter buyout.
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Seems almost journalistic.
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What a shame.... said no one. Lock him up.
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David Sacks is an investor? sorry the article doesn't make that clear.
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The original WSJ article (paywalled) makes that clearer
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Thanks for clarifying! With then David being the person arrested in the article too I was just confirming
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I thought that mofo moved to Miami during the panorama?
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Another triumph of Silicon Valley ethics.
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The Putin guy is a crook? No way!
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oh wait no this sucks actually i didnt know it was adderall now the dea is going to crack down on adderall even harder than it already was
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Says that Dave Morin (Offline Ventures) is an investor too. Wonder if The Information will run a piece on this, given that he's one of quartet on Jessica Lessin's podcast.