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Mr. Doud is charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to defraud the United States and failing to file reports on suspicious orders. One of Mr. Doud’s lawyers said his client was being “framed.”

But the government reached a deal with the company: It will delay prosecuting Rochester Drug Cooperative as long as it pays a $20 million fine, complies with the controlled substances law and submits to five years of supervision by an independent monitor.

As part of the deal, the company admitted in court papers that it violated narcotics laws by shipping opioids to pharmacies, knowing that the highly addictive medication was being sold and used illicitly.

New Yorkers are probably more familiar with another name in the opioid supply chain: Sackler.

The Sackler family, which owns the drug maker Purdue Pharma and has lavished money on the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other city institutions, is facing legal action in Manhattan as well.

The state filed a civil suit last month against eight family members, accusing them of personally contributing to the opioid epidemic by aggressively pushing to expand the market for their drug OxyContin after the company had admitted that it had misrepresented the drug’s potential for abuse.

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