60 Minutes Special Report –
Dec. 16, 2018 – Mike Moore says he’s, “just a country lawyer from Mississippi.” But this country lawyer has engineered two of the most lucrative legal settlements in American history. As Mississippi’s attorney general, he engineered the historic 1998 settlement under which Big Tobacco paid billions to address smoking-related health issues. In 2015, he convinced BP to settle multibillion-dollar lawsuits over its huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Now Mike Moore has taken aim at the manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers, claiming they should pay for the epidemic of addiction and death that has swept this nation. As you’ll hear in a moment, he has powerful new evidence that he says proves that states like Ohio, among the hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic, should collect billions from all the companies he’s suing.
