Accenture said it ditched DEI. The DOJ just caught them running secret race scorecards

Published October 9, 2026 11:00am ET



Yogi Berra said it best: It’s deja vu all over again.

Color-coded monthly dashboards. Separate promotion conversations for candidates who moved demographic numbers in the “right” direction. Leadership programs with the door closed to the “wrong” race or sex. These are just a few of the flashing indicators that companies who should have known better had nonetheless embraced illegal employment practices. The avoidable result was the payment of huge fines. IBM paid $17 million. Deloitte paid $21.5 million. Now Accenture agreed to pay $25 million to resolve Justice Department allegations that it did the same things, while certifying it did not in order to continue its collection of big bucks from taxpayers.

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