And at each meeting, the Sacklers would vote to pay themselves. A hundred million here, a hundred million there. If the younger Mortimer felt that he was not being paid promptly and in the amount that he had anticipated, he would complain. “Why are you BOTH reducing the amount of the distribution and delaying it and splitting it in two?” he fumed in 2010, upon learning that the company would need to reduce the family’s quarterly disbursement from $320 million to $260 million and pay the money out in two tranches.
