The people harmed most by criminal behaviour are the consultants and staff who are simply seeking an honest day's work, and make the mistake of agreeing to take a job with these firms.
Guilty firms like 1 Source can hide their past behaviours from future clients, media, etc., and clients will recover from losing their investment in a project, but the staff who were harmed will have to live with that experience until they retire.
They will either leave the experience off their resume in which case they will have to explain the gap to future employers, or put it on their resume and then have to explain why their stint was so short and why they left. Also, consulting in D.C. is a small world where firms partner or compete with other frequently. Reputations are built quickly and spread fast. Having a firm with a poor reputation on one's resume may cost you an interview or two.
(I will not touch on the long-lasting physcological affects of physical and sexual harrassment since this blog is not the appropriate place for that discussion.)
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