Ciattarelli team blasts opponent over ‘slanderous’ claim he profited from opioid deaths

With the final days closing in on an especially messy New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign slammed his Democratic opponent, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, for pushing a narrative that he "killed tens of thousands of people."Sherrill accused Ciattarelli of being responsible for printing "propaganda" via the medical publishing company he founded that downplayed the dangers of opioids and of designing an app to help people access dangerous drugs. She made the claims during a gubernatorial debate on Oct. 8 and doubled down during a press conference on opioid ad