Corporate Money needs to cease for politicians

[Mainecat]

'We feel like our system was hijacked': DEA agents say a huge opioid case ended in a whimper Source: The Washington Post By Lenny Bernstein and Scott Higham December 17 at 6:00 AM  After two years of painstaking investigation, David Schiller and the rest of the Drug Enforcement Administration team he supervised were ready to move on the biggest opioid distribution case in U.S. history.  The team, based out of the DEA’s Denver field division, had been examining the operations of the nation’s largest drug company, McKesson Corp. By 2014, investigators said they could show that the company had failed to report suspicious orders involving millions of highly addictive painkillers sent to drugstores from Sacramento, Calif., to Lakeland, Fla. Some of those went to corrupt pharmacies that supplied drug rings. The investigators were ready to come down hard on the fifth-largest public corporation in America, according to a joint investigation by The Washington Post and “60 Minutes.”  The DEA team — nine field divisions working with 12 U.S. attorney’s offices across 11 states — wanted to revoke registrations to distribute controlled substances at some of McKesson’s 30 drug warehouses. Schiller and members of his team wanted to fine the company more than $1 billion. More than anything else, they wanted to bring the first-ever criminal case against a drug distribution company, maybe even walk an executive in handcuffs out of McKesson’s towering San Francisco headquarters to send a message to the rest of the industry.  “This is the best case we’ve ever had against a major distributor in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration,” said Schiller, who recently retired as assistant special agent in charge of DEA’s Denver field division after a 30-year career with the agency. “I said, ‘How do we not go after the number one organization?’ ” But it didn’t work out that way. Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mckesson-dea-opioids-fine/2017/12/14/ab50ad0e-db5b-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html

[Ez ryder]

big man there retiring then coming out with a story . man up when you have power to get something done otherwise you are nothing but a mainecunt wanna be  

[Mainecat]

2 minutes ago, Ez ryder said:

big man there retiring then coming out with a story . man up when you have power to get something done otherwise you are nothing but a mainecunt wanna be  

Care to address the thread?

[Ez ryder]

it shows what every one has been telling you  . every one knows politicians are all crooks . but in the last few yrs the evidence showing all law enforcement is corrupt all the way to the top is overwhelming    

[Rod]

Corporations 

unions 

 foreign money in any way

Edited December 17, 2017 by Rod Johnson

[Carlos Danger]

1 hour ago, Ez ryder said:

it shows what every one has been telling you  . every one knows politicians are all crooks . but in the last few yrs the evidence showing all law enforcement is corrupt all the way to the top is overwhelming    

Looks to me like this all went down under the Obama administration. Is MC implying that there may have been corruption in his administration?

[Mainecat]

4 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

Looks to me like this all went down under the Obama administration. Is MC implying that there may have been corruption in his administration?

You mean the republican controlled congress?

[Mainecat]

60 Minutes and The Washington Post first reported in October how the DEA's efforts to crack down on the opioid epidemic were derailed as the number of opioid drug deaths increased.   In its wake, Rep. Tom Marino (R. PA) withdrew his name from consideration as America's drug czar. A number of Democrats and at least one Republican called for modification or outright repeal of the law Marino shepherded through Congress, which undercuts the DEA's ability to take action against the drug industry. The law and how it was passed was a central tenet of the first story in the joint investigation.   

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-and-the-washington-post-follow-up-on-joint-investigation-into-the-opioid-epidemic/

[Ez ryder]

9 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

You mean the republican controlled congress?

the buck stops where? 

we can all thank Hillary for her legacy of unwillingly showing even the most partisan hack just how corrupt the justice system in America has become . even if said partisan will never say it out loud they still saw it      

[Mainecat]

1 minute ago, Ez ryder said:

the buck stops where? 

we can all thank Hillary for her legacy of unwillingly showing even the most partisan hack just how corrupt the justice system in America has become . even if said partisan will never say it out loud they still saw it      

Clinton is irrelivent in 70% of Americans minds.

[Ez ryder]

5 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Clinton is irrelivent in 70% of Americans minds.

well again that may be true but she opened the eyes of the corrupt justice system in every person with at least a few firing brainwaves .

it is not a bad legacy