New York Post

‘OD’ pharma family gave Bill 50G

- Rich Calder alder and Yoav Gonan an

Mayor de Blasio collected more than $50,000 in donations from two members of the family that owns the pharmaceut­ical giant behind OxyContin — which he accused this week of “fueling” a national crisis of opioid overdoses, according to a report.

During a Bronx press conference Monday outlining plans by the city to invest $38 million a year to combat the problem, de Blasio (right) singled out the painkiller.

“A bill of goods was sold to people that these drugs were not dangerous and didn’t lead to long-term addiction, when, in fact, it was well known they did,” he said. He didn’t mention that OxyContin is manufactur­ed by Stamford, Conn.-based Purdue Pharma.

Arts philanthro­pist Elizabeth Sackler, whose relatives own the company, contribute­d $30,000 to de Blasio’s now-defunct nonprofit Campaign for One New York, Crain’s reported. She and her son, Michael, donated $14,400 to de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign and another $5,950 to his 2017 campaign.

In 2014, the mayor attended a dinner celebratin­g Sackler as the first woman elected to the Brooklyn Museum’s board of trustees.

When asked if the mayor plans to return the Sackler donations, Dan Levitan, a spokesman for the mayor’s campaign, would say only, “Elizabeth Sackler is a celebrated historian, activist and philanthro­pist and we were proud to have her support.”

Michael Sackler said that he and his mother did not own any stock in the company.

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