• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    C’mon now…

    If they can’t charge all that money to be wrong. How can they pay the US government the $722,000,000.00 they owe?

    The Justice Department said McKinsey Africa had received credit for cooperating with its investigation and conducting anti-corruption training for employees. The $122,850,000 McKinsey has agreed to fork up includes a penalty it will pay in South Africa.

    McKinsey is also in talks with the Justice Department to pay more than $600 million to resolve a separate investigation into the consulting firm’s work helping opioid manufacturers boost sales that allegedly contributed to a deadly addiction epidemic, people familiar with the matter have told Reuters.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mckinsey-africa-pay-122-million-south-africa-bribery-scheme-us-justice-dept-says-2024-12-05/

    You think Purdue Pharma could have made all those drug addicts customers without McKinsey pushing pills for them?

    Won’t some think of the Billionaires stock portfolios!

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      7 days ago

      Fair, but like, nothing sells itself like opiates. [I’m actually aware they’re the ones who encouraged the massive ad campaign focused on claiming oxycontin isn’t addictive, though given Sackler previous behavior I believe in their ability to figure that strategy out on their own]