Posted on 03/23/2021 6:59:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A consulting firm with ties to communist China is set to pay Nevada $45 million after it spread propaganda that contributed to the state’s opioid crisis.
The state’s Democrat Attorney General Aaron Ford announced the settlement with McKinsey & Company on Monday, just one month he “opted out” of another settlement worth $573 million with 47 states and Washington D.C. over the opioid propaganda which would have left Nevada with a “woefully insufficient” $7 million.
“Nevada is a hardest-hit state by the opioid crisis and is owed a great deal of compensation and justice,” Ford said in a press release, noting that opioids “have killed thousands in Nevada, and they continue to ravage the lives of many more, creating one of the largest public-health epidemics in the country’s history.”
Nevada opted out of the multistate settlement with McKinsey & Company last month.
Today, the @NevadaAG Office announced that we’ve settled separately with McKinsey for $45 million.
As a candidate, I promised that I’d always look out for Nevada’s families first. I meant it. https://t.co/WEHJCwX2gX
— Aaron D. Ford (@AaronDFordNV) March 22, 2021
McKinsey first came under scrutiny after its client, prescription drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP, filed for bankruptcy in 2019 using documents that showed the consulting firm recommended offering rebates to doctors and distributors whose patients overdosed on the addictive pills they sold. The consulting firm also advised Purdue to “turbocharge” Oxycontin sales by issuing more prescription doses, some with higher levels of potency, a 15-year campaign which Ford’s office said heavily contributed to the high numbers of opioid prescriptions in the state which far “exceeded the national average.”
While Purdue was ordered to pay $8.3 billion in November for its role in “defrauding the federal government and violating of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,” McKinsey’s promotion of opioids, even as overdose numbers rose, will result in “two installments of $23 million in 45 days and $22 million in 120 days” to Nevada.
McKinsey previously refused to directly address Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s questions about its role in the opioid crisis and if it discussed America’s epidemic with communist China.
“Has McKinsey & Company ever: a. Discussed America’s opioid epidemic with a client in China or member of the CPP?” Rubio asked. “If so, please detail the nature of those conversations, including whether they were part of a contract. b. Discussed China’s importation of fentanyl into the United States with a client in China or member of the CCP?”
The New Opium Dens.
China has a very long memory.
Shaking my head. How does the oldest and biggest management consulting firm end up as a drug pusher?
‘good’ greed - give outside pharm reps a percentage commission to introduce new and improved drugs to doctors around the country
‘bad’ greed - pushing higher dosing and “offering rebates to doctors and distributors” if one of the patients od’s - over a 15 year period
Has the state of Nevada reimbursed the families of drug overdoses at least for funeral costs?
And how fast will those involved over the last 15 years be arrested and thrown in a cold dark hole for a long time for engaging in street-level biowarfare against the American people?? Cash is not justice, to steal a new leftist phrase.
Send a stealth bomber over China and drop marijuana. Throw in some Barry Manilow cd’s.
"Unrestricted Warfare"
"The Assassin's Mace"
They're playing for keeps.
The Sackler family belongs in jail. All of them.
US policy is, and has been that a WMD is a WMD is a WMD.
One could argue that China has engaged in chemical warfare against the US with Fentanyl.
One could argue that China has engaged in biological warfare against the US with COVID-19.
One could argue that China is threatening nuclear warfare against the US...
Chelsea Clinton worked for them.
Not a word about the HCAPS question about pain management during hospitalization. O wait, what year was that again. Addicts got readmitted with liberal amounts of opiods in the daily med box. Hcaps drives how much money the govt sends hospitals.
The finally removed the question. No one asked why.
We learned in the 7th grade the addictive and deadly nature of Opiates, Doctors didn’t used to just get you addicted and send you on your merry way. In 1979 my doctors and I had a nice long talk on how I was going to be a junkie for 3 months, but it was OK because I spent 1 week going through managed withdrawls in the Hospital, when the crap was out of my system I had the Surgery and it was Over.
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