Federal prosecutors looking at relationship with Purdue Pharma and other drug manufacturers, and its role in US opioid crisis
McKinsey is under criminal investigation in the United States over allegations that the consulting firm played a key role in fueling the opioid epidemic, with federal prosecutors homing in on its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other drugmakers, three people familiar with the matter said.
The consulting firm and the US justice department declined to comment.
The inquiry is focused on whether McKinsey engaged in a criminal conspiracy when advising Purdue and other pharmaceutical manufacturers on marketing strategies to boost sales of prescription painkillers that led to widespread addiction and fatal overdoses, two of the people said.
The justice department is also investigating whether McKinsey conspired to commit healthcare fraud when its consulting work for companies selling opioids allegedly resulted in fraudulent claims being made to government programs such as Medicare, they said.
If you don’t think someone in a top cabinet position has no sway over the DOJ, I don’t know what to tell you.
And if you don’t think a politician would hide skeletons in their closet behind NDAs, I also don’t know what to tell you.
I’m not saying one wouldn’t. It doesn’t make sense for him to go out of his way to disclose that he did work under a private NDA, and request release, if it were hiding something scandalous.