If the French discovered the consulting firm McKinsey only after the Macron government's recourse to its French subsidiary had been deemed too costly, this entity has already been implicated in the United States in the context of the "crisis opiates”.
And it is moreover for this affair that one of the executives of the company has just been violently challenged by the deputy Rashida Tlaib before the American Congress.
McKinsey/Big Pharma worse than Pablo Escobar?
The Democratic representative indeed asked Bob Sternfels, associate director of McKinsey & Company, to explain to her “the difference between McKinsey/Big Pharma, the opiate cartel and organizations such as those of Pablo Escobar”!
And to those surprised by this – daring – comparison with one of the biggest drug traffickers of all time, the deputy provided evidence of the consulting firm's involvement in the "poisoning" of pregnant women who were 'OxyContin (a painkiller) had been prescribed.
Witness his vigorous advocacy in this video from our partner Brut.
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