McKinsey & Co. will pay $650 million in penalties to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to settle charges that it advised Purdue Pharma on how to โ€œturbochargeโ€ the sale of Oxycontin in the middle of the U.S. opioid crisis.

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