Summary

Former McKinsey partner Martin Elling pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by destroying documents tied to McKinsey’s advice for Purdue Pharma on boosting OxyContin sales.

Elling helped devise strategies targeting “high-value” prescribers, including those involved in illegitimate opioid uses.

His plea follows McKinsey’s $650M settlement over its Purdue work and Purdue’s 2020 guilty plea for opioid-related misconduct.

Elling faces up to a year in prison, with sentencing set for April 4.

The case underscores accountability in the opioid crisis, which caused over 727,000 U.S. deaths since 1999.

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    12 days ago

    The case underscores accountability

    Hahahahhhahha

    Ohhahahahahahahhaha

    Hahaha

    Oh wait, that was supposed to be serious, not a joke, wasn’t it?

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    When this is what counts as “justice” or “rule of law” I cannot understand why anyone would be shocked or surprised about Luigi events.

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    12 days ago

    Death sentence. Make the consequences horrendous for doing this kind of thing.

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    12 days ago

    The initial image in my head was of a person, high on opoids, hanging out in someone’s living room and destroying their entire vinyl record collection.