What follows was written by Mary Williams Walsh, who escaped from The New York Times and is now the managing editor of News Items. It’s a remarkable story, well-reported and clearly written. We don’t know how it ends, but when it does, it will be news, win or lose.
We’ve heard a lot this summer about what Donald Trump thinks of America’s courts and the officials in them. They’re “very biased,” “unfair,” “corrupt and highly partisan,” “rabid,” and so on. Millions of followers seem to agree.
But there’s someone else who believes he’s seen real corruption in America’s courts, and instead of calling people names on social media, decided to pursue reform. Jay Alix, a retired corporate turnaround man and certified fraud examiner, has spent the last seven years ricocheting from courtroom to courtroom, arguing that McKinsey, the elite global consulting firm, has been breaking the law, improperly enriching itself, and rigging cases in the bankruptcy courts, where it’s required to act as a fiduciary. Not just once, but again and again.
“If somebody’s doing this across multiple cases, across billions of dollars of transactions, they’ve corrupted the system,” Alix told me.
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