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McKinsey has agreed to pay $573m (£419m) to resolve claims it faced across the US related to its role fuelling America s opioid epidemic.
The consulting firm was under investigation for its work with Purdue Pharma, which aimed to boost sales of the addictive Oxycontin painkiller.
McKinsey maintained that its past work was lawful and denied wrongdoing.
But California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the firm had been part of a machine that. destroyed lives .
Prosecutors said McKinsey had worked on strategies to turbocharge Oxycontin sales, advising Purdue to increase sales calls to doctors known to be high prescribers and to subvert restrictions on higher dosages that authorities wanted to impose.
Former Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., reacts to Gov. Andrew Cuomo s defensiveness over a report on nursing home deaths on his watch.
Much of the mainstream media continues to downplay the growing turmoil plaguing Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Just days after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report alleging that the state Department of Health may have underreported coronavirus deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50 percent, The New York Times reported that nine of Cuomo s top health officials have fled his administration in recent months over apparent clashes with the outspoken governor.
However, the latest Albany drama received no mention on MSNBC or on the three broadcast networks on Monday.
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace may have gotten ahead of herself in her praise of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's daily coronavirus press briefings in the early weeks of the pandemic.
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Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, left, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Fatalities at nursing homes across New York due to COVID-19 were undercounted by as much as 50% as residents who died at hospitals were not included in that data, according to a report released Thursday by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Discrepancies in data released by the State Department of Health has been a point of contention ever since the initial COVID outbreak resulted in thousands of deaths in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. State lawmakers held a pair of public hearings last summer to question officials such as Dr. Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, on the state’s handling of nursing homes and the data that had been released.