Walt Bogdanich

Dec 5, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Forsythe |Walt Bogdanich

McKinsey & Co. agreed to pay a fine of more than $122 million to resolve a felony bribery investigation stemming from its work in South Africa, federal prosecutors in New York said in a filing unsealed Thursday. It is the latest in a string of legal penalties for the global consulting firm, which in recent years has agreed to pay about $1 billion in settlements for its work with opioid manufacturers.

Oct 23, 2024 | spokesman.com | Walt Bogdanich |Carson Kessler

By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the drugmaker Eisai, the trial was a shot at a windfall — potentially billions of dollars — for defanging a disease that had confounded researchers for more than a century. To assess the drug’s effectiveness and safety, Eisai sought to include people whose genetic profiles made them especially prone to develop Alzheimer’s.

Aug 23, 2024 | fingers.email | Walt Bogdanich |Mike Forsythe |Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway

Books? Pretty great, I think. Reading them, referencing them, arranging them by color on a shelf behind you so when you get on a Zoom call you seem chic and put-together? Good shit all around. As longtime readers may recall, my reading list doubles as a shoppable page on Bookshop.org, The Fingers Reading Room.