Ex-McKinsey Partner Sentenced in Obstruction Case
This article relates to others we highlighted way back when it was first revealed that Purdue Pharma, maker of the deadly OxyContin, was one of McKinsey’s most lucrative clients and that the partners who worked on Purdue were the highest-paid partners in the Firm.
The question then was “how can the nation’s most prestigious consulting firm be helping Purdue plot ways to get more and more people addicted to OxyContin, in order to enrich the Purdue family and pad their own paychecks? It was truly sickening! Now Elling says “he fully accepts responsibility for his conduct for which he is extremely sorry.
Sure, he fully accepts, because he was convicted! Of course, he is sorry! He’s been caught!
But he wasn’t sorry back when he was getting paid based on how many people he helped to get addicted! They were people whose lives were destroyed, and in many cases ended because of him!
As it relates to the title of my book “What Goes Around Comes Around,” this story is confirmation that the Principle in question, is absolutely true! But it would have seemed more in balance if it didn’t take so long, with so many deaths before they nailed his sorry ass!
Hopefully, it will deter others from engaging in similarly low-life actions. Hopefully, these reprobates will now try to mend their legacies by accomplishing something good in their remaining lifetimes. Maybe it will just be a lesson to us to be kinder and more helpful to all.
The consultant had deleted records involving McKinsey’s role in pushing OxyContin sales and driving the opioid crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/business/mckinsey-obstruction-opioids.html?smid=em-share
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Ex-McKinsey partner who advised opioid maker Purdue Pharma sentenced to prison
By Nate Raymond
(Reuters) – A former McKinsey & Co partner was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison for obstructing justice by destroying records related to advice the consulting firm gave Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” sales of the opioid painkiller OxyContin.
Martin Elling, 60, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Ballou in Abingdon, Virginia, after his former employer agreed in December to pay $650 million to resolve related charges by the U.S. Department of Justice over its work for Purdue.
Prosecutors argued Elling deserved a year in prison after he pleaded guilty in January. His lawyers countered that any prison sentence would be “devastating” as it would bar him from ever entering his new home of Thailand.
The sentence was confirmed by a representative for Elling’s legal team, which said he is “extremely sorry” for his conduct.
Purdue in 2020 pleaded guilty to charges concerning misconduct related to its marketing and sale of prescription painkillers.
Prosecutors said Elling was involved in helping McKinsey land work for Purdue in 2013 that resulted in the New York-based firm crafting a strategy to boost OxyContin sales.
The strategy involved targeting “high-value” prescribers in the medical field, including ones who prescribed opioids for illegitimate uses, prosecutors said.
According to charging papers, Elling was among a few McKinsey partners who participated in a 2013 meeting with members of the Sackler family who owned Purdue Pharma and ultimately adopted McKinsey’s proposal.
In July 2018, after reading about a lawsuit Massachusetts’ attorney general filed against Purdue, Elling emailed a McKinsey partner about whether “we should be doing anything other that [sic] eliminating all our documents and emails.”
A month later, Elling emailed himself to “delete old pur (Purdue Pharma) documents from laptop,” prosecutors said. They said a forensic analysis confirmed he did just that.
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Ex-McKinsey Partner Sentenced in Obstruction Case
Ex-McKinsey Partner Sentenced in Obstruction Case
U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Connecticut between 1988 and 2006, including the revelation of leaders who discouraged disclosure. Those cases do not include at least 42 more that have been identified as not having been properly investigated. That is not to mention new Pentagon published statistics showing student-reported assaults at West Point, the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy.
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