McKinsey Helped to Sell the Opioids Killing America
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So McKinsey, who as my long time listeners know, I love to make fun of these consulting businesses because of the joke that they actually are. Again, they don’t do anything. Well, like they collect they collect money. They got a lot of Ivy League grads that go over there and work or supposedly consult. If a company needs McKinsey, that’s probably a company you want. You maybe want to sell.
What’s the point? What is the point? I mentioned this before. What do you do as CEO of the company? You got to hire consultants to run your business for you? Then what exactly do you say you do there at the company? But anyway, neither here nor there. I’m going off on this in the past. They’re now under criminal investigation. They had to pay a fine already in regards to the role that they played in the opiate epidemic that we’re still dealing with.
We’re still dealing with and I think we’re going to be dealing with for another generation. They’re basically looking at the work that they did advising Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin and whether or not they engaged in a criminal conspiracy and marketing strategies to boost sales of the prescription painkillers. Obviously, we all know they’ve made
Movies on this, books on this, you can see what’s happening, see what it’s cost this country as a whole. At this point in time, we’ve gotten to the point where we are well over 100 ,000 people dying every year due to drug overdoses. And I know you can blame Fentanyl, you can blame China, but they didn’t start it. We did this to ourselves.
Um, yeah, you want to talk about just how in session nefarious all of this is with all of these different groups. Um, no, no, who, who the Lord, I mean, guess, guess who are the attorneys for the Sackler family who’s they’re enormously wealthy. Oh, they, they, they protected themselves. They’re enormous. They didn’t lose any of their what they’re fine.
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Fine, biggest drug dealers the planet has ever seen. Oh yeah, Pablo Escobar’s got nothing on these guys. Guess, Mary Jo White.
Mary Jo White, remember her? Oh, she was a big, big prosecutor in New York. Rudy Giuliani. Yep, Rudy Giuliani was one of the Sackler attorneys. Who else? Eric Holder. Yeah, Obama’s attorney general. Yep, these were the people defending them. Well, that’s their job and everyone needs a defense.
I hear you. And I understand that. Again, maybe that’s why I couldn’t be a lawyer in this case, especially when the guilt is obvious. I was thinking about the movie Devil’s Advocate there with counter Reaves, the beginning of the movie made a choice. Wrong choice, obviously. He never lost a case.
Never lost a case and he’s defending this pedophile. Defending this pedophile and again he thinks, thinks that this guy’s innocent until he sees something and he knows that he’s not. Knows that he’s not. And he’s in the bathroom and there’s the devil in the room playing a reporter there, playing upon his pride and.
vanity and oh you’ve never lost a case looks like everyone’s got to lose one sometime as Ken he’s having this moral dilemma in his mind about what he’s going to do and withdrawing as the lawyer now knowing that the person is guilty and what did he decide to do decides to keep his uh his winning streak alive.
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Anyway, some point in time, people got to understand that it’s more important to do the right thing rather than the most expedient thing for themselves. Watchdog on Wallstreet .com.