(Source: Fortune, July 10, 2017)
NEW YORK — In his 17 years as CEO of McKesson, the nearly $200 billion drug distributor that ranks No. 5 on this year’s Fortune 500, John Hammergren has made a lot of money. He took home $639 million in total compensation in the last decade alone, according to company filings. In 2010, he made roughly $398,000 a day. The thing is, as Fortune reported in a feature story in June, the company’s behavior hasn’t been so good. McKesson is currently embroiled in controversy around its role in the opioid epidemic; in January, the company settled, for a record $150 million, claims that it had failed to report large numbers of suspicious orders of prescription opioids to the DEA.
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