“This resolution marks the first time a management consulting firm has been criminally responsible for advice it has given resulting in the commission of a crime by a client”
McKinsey pays $650 million on top of nearly $900 million already paid to states and cities, admits nothing on the civil side, and gets a deferred prosecution deal. One former senior partner, Martin Elling, pleads guilty for deleting Purdue files from his laptop. Everyone who ran the firm while it helped “turbocharge” OxyContin sales walks. Street dealers get prison. McKinsey’s punishment is a promise to stop advising on controlled substances.