{"id":28370,"date":"2025-05-23T01:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28370"},"modified":"2025-05-23T01:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T01:26:30","slug":"ex-mckinsey-partner-sentenced-in-obstruction-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28370","title":{"rendered":"Ex-McKinsey Partner Sentenced in Obstruction Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The consultant had deleted records involving McKinsey\u2019s role in pushing OxyContin sales and driving the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n

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A former senior partner at McKinsey & Company was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison for destroying records that shed light on the firm\u2019s role in the national opioid crisis.<\/p>\n

The partner, Martin Elling, 60, had pleaded guilty<\/a> to obstruction of justice as part of a federal case against the firm and its efforts to \u201cturbocharge\u201d sales of OxyContin during an overdose epidemic that had already killed hundreds of thousands of people. McKinsey agreed to pay $650 million<\/a> to end that investigation last December.<\/p>\n

The records purge happened in 2018, when Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, was facing multiple lawsuits. Mr. Elling emailed a colleague who worked with him on the Purdue account, writing: \u201cIt probably makes sense to have a quick conversation with the risk committee to see if we should be doing anything\u201d other than \u201celiminating all our documents and emails. Suspect not but as things get tougher there someone might turn to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Elling was fired after The New York Times reported<\/a> about the exchange in 2020.<\/p>\n

After he sent that email, Mr. Elling proceeded to delete files related to his work with Purdue, according to the Justice Department, which performed a forensic analysis of his laptop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a statement on Thursday, Mr. Elling\u2019s legal team confirmed the sentencing and said he \u201cfully accepts responsibility for his conduct, for which he is extremely sorry.\u201d Besides the six-month prison term, handed down in Federal District Court in Abingdon, Va., Mr. Elling will serve 1,000 hours of community service over two years of supervised release.<\/p>\n

McKinsey\u2019s work with clients around the world has come under intense public scrutiny in recent years, leading the firm to pay out more than $1.5 billion in fines and penalties. Last year, McKinsey\u2019s work in China was the focus of a Senate hearing<\/a>, and the firm agreed to pay more than $122 million<\/a> to resolve a bribery investigation involving a branch in South Africa.<\/p>\n

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The consultant had deleted records involving McKinsey\u2019s role in pushing OxyContin sales and driving the opioid crisis.A former senior partner at McKinsey & Company was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison for destroying records that shed light on the firm\u2019s role in the national opioid crisis.The partner, Martin Elling, 60, had pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice as part of a federal case against the firm and its efforts to \u201cturbocharge\u201d sales of OxyContin during an overdose epidemic that had already killed hundreds of thousands of people. McKinsey agreed to pay $650 million to end that investigation last December.The records purge happened in 2018, when Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, was facing multiple lawsuits. Mr. Elling emailed a colleague who worked with him on the Purdue account, writing: \u201cIt probably makes sense to have a quick conversation with the risk committee to see if we should be doing anything\u201d other than \u201celiminating all our documents and emails. Suspect not but as things get tougher there someone might turn to us.\u201dMr. Elling was fired after The New York Times reported about the exchange in 2020.After he sent that email, Mr. Elling proceeded to delete files related to his work with Purdue, according to the Justice Department, which performed a forensic analysis of his laptop.In a statement on Thursday, Mr. Elling\u2019s legal team confirmed the sentencing and said he \u201cfully accepts responsibility for his conduct, for which he is extremely sorry.\u201d Besides the six-month prison term, handed down in Federal District Court in Abingdon, Va., Mr. Elling will serve 1,000 hours of community service over two years of supervised release.McKinsey\u2019s work with clients around the world has come under intense public scrutiny in recent years, leading the firm to pay out more than $1.5 billion in fines and penalties. Last year, McKinsey\u2019s work in China was the focus of a Senate hearing, and the firm agreed to pay more than $122 million to resolve a bribery investigation involving a branch in South Africa.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28372,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28373,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370\/revisions\/28373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}