Clients over Science and Moral responsibilities

Any exciting stories about consulting work, perhaps in construction, where the engineer was hired to protect a client from litigation?

I’ve experienced this as an employee of a third party company and it was an avenue to shuffle around and avoid accountability. With plausible deniability, the construction company could game the system and trample on the rights of private neighborhoods.

These risk mitigations can be in the form of toxic waste exposure, radiation, or even damage from vibration.