[thread] McKinsey & Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company
Canada paid McKinsey, flush w. fossil fuel clients, $1.3M for clean tech advice
https://thenarwhal.ca/mckinsey-contracts-canada-oilpatch
* Documents obtained by Narwhal reveal a controversial firm McKinsey & Company had a number of oilpatch clients
* secured $1.35M contract for advice about 2023 federal budget
#Canada #Narwhal #McKinsey #FossilFuels #Alberta #oilsands #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #duplicity
McKinsey’s Dealings w. Despots More Extensive Than We Knew
https://newrepublic.com/article/188970/mckinsey-consultant-foreign-despots-influence
Fresh reporting expands what we know about the consulting firm’s ever-growing web of services to corrupt regimes all over the planet.
* McKinsey cozied up to dictatorship in China
* hosted corp. retreat within spitting distance of Uyghur concentration camps
* embedded w.i. despotic Saudi Arabia regime; image-laundering efforts
*clients include some of world’s biggest polluters
McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $650M for helping Purdue Pharma boost opioid sales
https://apnews.com/article/mckinsey-justice-department-criminal-penalty-opioids-crisis-d47d1bc1c4e14288927c2aea2369b789
Comment: malfeasance discuss.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413086
* helped opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost sales of highly addictive drug OxyContin
* McKinsey “deeply sorry” for its work for Purdue Pharma 🤔 🤬 💰️
#McKinseyCompany #McKinsey #PurduePharma #corruption #OpioidEpidemic #opioids #OxyContin #addiction #CorporateCorruption #CorporatePredation #MedicalIndustrialComplex #corporations
McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work for opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma, according to court papers filed in Virginia. McKinsey has also entered into a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve criminal charges, including that it conspired with Purdue Pharma to aid in the misbranding of prescription drugs. A former McKinsey senior partner has also agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice charges, according to the court papers. McKinsey said in a statement on Friday that it’s “deeply sorry” for its work for Purdue Pharma.
McKinsey’s Extensive Dealings w. Despots
https://newrepublic.com/article/188970/mckinsey-consultant-foreign-despots-influence
* consulting firm’s ever-growing global web of services to corrupt regimes
* secret roster of reprehensible clients
* cozied up to Chinese dictatorship in China
* hosted corporate retreat w.i. spitting distance of Uyghur concentration camps
* world’s biggest polluters
* targeting/censoring Saudi Arabia regime opponents
* India's Narendra Modi gov't
* Sberbank of Russia
The McKinsey Opioid Consultants Who Got Away
https://www.levernews.com/the-mckinsey-opioid-consultants-who-got-away
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/biden-doj-mckinsey-opioid-epidemic
* Biden admin's sweetheart deal to McKinsey & Co
* new policy goes even softer on corporate crime
* let consulting giant off hook for helping turbocharge disastrous OxyContin sales
#McKinseyCompany #McKinsey #PurduePharma #corruption #OpioidEpidemic #opioids #OxyContin #addiction #CorporateCorruption #CorporateCrime #CorporatePredation #MedicalIndustrialComplex #corporations #billionaires #WealthTax
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