Epic Drama Unfolds For Feds In Ogilvy, ONDCP Case

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Almost 600 staffers. More than 1 million documents. And over 300,000 e-mail messages. That’s only part of what one prosecutor called the “breathtaking” scope of the government’s ongoing investigation into billing practices on the Office of National Drug Control Policy account during Ogilvy & Mather’s tenure on the business.

The numbers were revealed in court papers and in a federal court hearing on Nov. 8, at which two former Ogilvy & Mather executives won the right to hear more details of the bill-inflation accusations that federal prosecutors have made against them.

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