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McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis
The powerful consulting firm McKinsey will "accept responsibility" and pay $650 million for helping to fuel the opioid crisis, but executives will once again dodge prosecution.
McKinsey and Company has agreed to pay $650 million to settle federal civil and criminal probes into alleged wrongdoing linked to "turbocharging" opioid sales on behalf of Purdue Pharma. Bisch's group, called Relatives Against Purdue Pharma, has staged protests outside DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., demanding more accountability for corporate leaders who aggressively promoted and profited from opioid sales. toggle caption Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe via Getty Images "Today's convictions mark the first successful prosecution of top pharmaceutical executives for crimes related to the illicit marketing and prescribing of opioids," then-U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in a statement issued at the time.
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