Somewhere inside Deloitte's partnership ranks, a staffer built a spreadsheet. It sorted candidates for partner, principal, and managing director by race and sex, then circulated the list with a note urging colleagues to “equitably maintain the current mix.” That spreadsheet is now sitting inside a $21.5 million settlement Deloitte reached with the Justice Department this week over allegations that its diversity programs broke the anti-discrimination terms of its own federal contracts. I've spent thirty years reviewing internal documents in litigation. I've rarely seen one hand the government a case this clean.
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