{"id":2229666,"date":"2024-04-24T22:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mckinsey-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-role-in-opioid-epidemic-report\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:15:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T02:15:52","slug":"mckinsey-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-role-in-opioid-epidemic-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mckinsey-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-role-in-opioid-epidemic-report\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinsey Faces Criminal Probe for Alleged Involvement in Opioid Crisis: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmckinsey-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-role-in-opioid-epidemic-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2229666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>McKinsey &#038; Company is \u2064facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-tapper-notes-hunter-biden-investigation-lara-trump-fires-glad-you-finally-figured-that-out\/\" title=\"Jake Tapper Notes Hunter Biden Investigation; Lara Trump Fires: \u2018Glad You Finally Figured That Out\u2019\">federal criminal investigation<\/a> \u200cby the U.S. Department of Justice\u200c for advising major opioid manufacturers\u200b on sales strategies. The Wall Street Journal reported prosecutors are examining whether the company obstructed justice during the probe. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-investigates-google-maps-for-antitrust-abuses\/\" title=\"DOJ Investigates Google Maps for Antitrust Abuses\">investigation focuses<\/a> on consulting services provided to Purdue, Endo\u2063 International, and Mallinckrodt, linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-halts-6-billion-purdue-pharma-bankruptcy-agreement\/\" title=\"Supreme Court stops B Purdue Pharma bankruptcy deal.\">opioid addiction crisis<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>McKinsey &#038; Company is under federal criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for their alleged past work advising some of the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/opioid-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opioid manufacturers<\/a> on how to maximize sales.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal broke the story Wednesday evening on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mckinsey-faces-criminal-probe-over-opioid-related-consulting-a3f816d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> in which prosecutors are also seeking to determine if the company or its employees obstructed justice throughout the course of the multi-year investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are specifically looking at consulting advice the firm gave to Purdue, Endo International, and Mallinckrodt that government and private plaintiffs have alleged exacerbated the opioid addiction epidemic, the report said. The three companies have filed for bankruptcy in response to lawsuits alleging they marketed the drug in a deceptive way that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-attorney-general-investigating-walmart-over-opioids\/\" title=\"Texas Attorney General Investigating Walmart Over Opioids\">caused addiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is being run through two U.S. attorney\u2019s offices, the Western District of Virginia and the District of Massachusetts, the report said. A federal grand jury has been impaneled in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The company has already paid approximately $1 billion in settlements with all 50 U.S. states, five U.S. territories, Washington, D.C., Native American tribes, public school districts, insurance companies and municipal governments, the report said. They have never admitted any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>McKinsey consultants allegedly told Purdue that it could \u201cturbocharge\u201d its sales of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin by making more sales calls to healthcare providers that it knew wrote significantly larger volumes of prescriptions of the drug and spend less time speaking with providers who seldom prescribed it.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/24\/business\/mckinsey-criminal-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that senior McKinsey consultants were growing nervous in 2018 that they would be liable for their work helping opioid manufacturers boost their sales.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The report said that during the summer of 2018, Martin Elling, a leader in the firm\u2019s pharmaceutical practice, allegedly emailed senior McKinsey partner Arnab Ghatak and asked whether they should destroy documents and records related to their opioid work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for the heads up,\u201d Ghatak responded. \u201cWill do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times said both men were fired after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opposition-builds-scores-of-british-lawmakers-across-political-spectrum-unite-against-vaccine-passports\/\" title=\"Opposition Builds: Scores Of British Lawmakers Across Political Spectrum Unite Against Vaccine Passports\">newspaper reported<\/a> on the existence of the emails in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKinsey &amp; Company faces a federal criminal probe led by the U.S. Department of Justice for advising major opioid manufacturers on sales strategies. The Wall Street Journal revealed the investigation, questioning the company&#8217;s involvement and motives. Prosecutors aim to uncover potential legal violations in this case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2229667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/McKinsey-company.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/McKinsey-company.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}