McKinsey & Company—McKinsey partners planned and executed destruction of opioid-related documents
As early as May 2017, McKinsey partners discussed keeping documents from being discovered in Purdue lawsuits, including using neutral templates without Purdue logos and showing only hard copies that could be deleted. A senior partner described the benefit: documents would live only on laptops and then could be deleted. A former senior partner was charged with felony obstruction of justice for deleting opioid-related documents. McKinsey terminated two senior partners over the conduct.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate Governance | -against | primary | -1.00 |
| Corporate Transparency | -against | secondary | -0.50 |
| Overall incident score = | -0.664 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
DOJ charged former McKinsey senior partner with felony obstruction for destroying opioid-related documents
As part of the DOJ resolution, a former McKinsey senior partner was charged with felony obstruction of justice for deleting opioid-related documents. Internal communications from May 2017 showed partners discussing using neutral templates without Purdue logos and only showing hard copies that could be deleted to avoid discovery in lawsuits. McKinsey terminated two senior partners over the conduct.