Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to addiction risks

OxyContin: The Giuliani Connection | May 10, 2007 1:28 PM | Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & R. Schwartz Report:

Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin.

Federal officials say the company, Purdue Frederick, helped to trigger a nationwide epidemic of addiction to the time-release painkiller by failing to give early warnings that it could be abused.

Prosecutors say "in the process scores died." ...