"Now, I know, there have already been a lot of headlines about Fortunato Pharma. About Ligodone. About the opioid epidemic in our homes and streets. The mountain of corpses that piled up since Roderick Usher — he's sitting over there — began marketing his painkillers decades ago. The Usher family under CEO Roderick Usher and COO Madeline Usher spent four decades growing Fortunato into one of the most profitable, powerful companies on the planet Earth. They’ve achieved this by doing awful, awful things. Flagrantly violating regulations, statutes and the most fundamental ethics. And at the cost of people’s lives. We will prove that Fortunato, as a matter of policy, engages in misleading marketing practices. It claims its products are safe and effective, and destroys any evidence that they are not. Burns evidence, fabricates evidence, destroys, defiles, degrades and defrauds. And the reason they aren't sweating: [...] They believe that people like them don't go to prison."
— C. Auguste Dupin, The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
