How McKinsey Created a $500 Million Opiate Crisis in America

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McKinsey gets nailed. McKinsey, you know I love making fun of these fools. Yeah, the consultants, the consultants. McKinsey is nearing a $500 million settlement with the Department of Justice over the opiate crisis. This is in their role in helping the opiate makers boost their sales. They’ve already paid out about, well, they’ve already paid out hundreds of millions.

Here, this is in regards to the sales analysis and marketing advice. McKinsey, no big deal. The parking ticket. They did $16 billion in revenue last year. And of course, of course they admitted no wrongdoing. This is what they said last May. Our past work for opiate manufacturers, while lawful.

fell short of the high standards we set for ourselves. We have implemented a rigorous client selection policy and spent approximately one billion building, enhancing and operating our risk legal and compliance functions since 2018. How shall I put this? Bullshit. Now, they don’t give a damn, okay? They don’t give a damn. If Satan and his minions called upon McKinsey to do work, they do it.

They would take the money because they’d say it’s lawful. Mark my words. It kind of reminds me of that movie. Devil’s Advocate, where Al Pacino played Satan. He was great in that. Let’s be honest here. McKinsey would do business with anyone. Period. They don’t care. And again, I don’t know why people choose to

choose to do business with people who have had ethical bypasses at birth, but they do. But they do. Again, they don’t care. It’s the same types of consultants that will advise companies to do all sorts of things. Again, that’s what they do. They tempt CEOs many times. That wasn’t the case with the opiate manufacturers, but they’ve seen it. Who is your advisor? Why is this company expanding the way it is? It makes no sense whatsoever. McKinsey is telling them to do it.

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Yeah, yeah, tempting them to do stupid things. Anyway, doesn’t surprise me in the slightest, but again, McKinsey pays a parking ticket. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.