Is the "Deep State" on our side?

[JackLuis]

‘We feel like our system was hijacked’: DEA agents say a huge opioid case ended in a whimper

Is the "Deep State" on our side? Who is in control of our Justice Dept?

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.
David Schiller said his team was demoralized when the case against McKesson was downgraded. (Mark Abramson/For The Washington Post)

“This is the best case we’ve ever had against a major distributor in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration,”

Too Big to Prosecute?

 

[BotanyBoy]

‘We feel like our system was hijacked’: DEA agents say a huge opioid case ended in a whimper

Interesting read.....it will be interesting to see if anything comes of this.

Is the "Deep State" on our side? Who is in control of our Justice Dept?

I HIGHLY doubt that they are.....they work for someone and even if some of their objectives do line up in the interest of the public their motives are anything but altruistic.

Someone is trying to get the government to take out the competition for them, looks like they might not have paid enough high ranking links in the food chain to manage such a large scale hit job.

The power struggles along the top rungs of M'arican bidnizz are getting crazy.

Too Big to Prosecute?

Mmmmmhmmm.....big meaning well connected.

 

[sr71plt]

Jeff Sessions, who lies to Congress, heads the Justice Department. Enough said.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Government agencies tend to be corrupt. Why is anybody surprised at that? There are probably thousands of threads on this site about this corruption.

 

[sr71plt]

Government agencies tend to be corrupt. Why is anybody surprised at that?

Because that's less true than of private business . . . or, as a matter of fact, of you.

You don't have to tell anyone you're confused, Box. That's quite evident.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Because that's less true than of private business

The primary difference is that private business doesn't have authority of violence.

The government does.

Not that you care being such a good lefty.

People making a living for themselves bad, state violence good!!! Right comrade?

 

[Hypoxia]

Government agencies tend to be corrupt.

Incorrect. Corporate goons bribing politicians tend to be corrupt. Tromp bragged about his bribery. Corporations defined as 'persons' contributing cash defined as 'speech' by SCOTUS tend to be corrupt and corrupting. As long as such bribery is ignored by courts, more pols will be bought.

Agency workers aren't often corrupted because they're mostly not worth bribing -- unless they're cops. Border patrol agents are pretty cheap. Drug enforcers charge more.

True, state and federal agencies aren't all clean. The VA has been a shambles for decades, with little congressional oversight and support. Secret Service has been rated the shittiest federal jobsite for many years. Most gov't prison and jail systems are rotten from top to bottom.

The old Chinese imperial bureaucracy had an interesting anti-corruption system. A gov't worker could only be promoted after they'd shown their boss was a crook. Were that in place here, Pence would have been POTUS in March.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Incorrect. Corporate goons bribing politicians tend to be corrupt.

If the politicians take the bribes that are offered that makes the politicians and the government by definition corrupt....LOL


Boxlicker.....flawless victory and all he had to do was state the obvious.

Do you also get run over by parked cars?

 

[phrodeau]

So the big pharma corp ignores regulations, and the current admin, who opposes regulations, lets them off with a fine. That’s making America great again.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Incorrect. Corporate goons bribing politicians tend to be corrupt. Tromp bragged about his bribery. Corporations defined as 'persons' contributing cash defined as 'speech' by SCOTUS tend to be corrupt and corrupting. As long as such bribery is ignored by courts, more pols will be bought.

Agency workers aren't often corrupted because they're mostly not worth bribing -- unless they're cops. Border patrol agents are pretty cheap. Drug enforcers charge more.

True, state and federal agencies aren't all clean. The VA has been a shambles for decades, with little congressional oversight and support. Secret Service has been rated the shittiest federal jobsite for many years. Most gov't prison and jail systems are rotten from top to bottom.

The old Chinese imperial bureaucracy had an interesting anti-corruption system. A gov't worker could only be promoted after they'd shown their boss was a crook. Were that in place here, Pence would have been POTUS in March.

If a politician accepts a bribe, he or she is corrupt, as is the person paying it. However, pols and other gov. workers have a special source. They can force honest people to pay just to stay in business. If one of them shakes down a contractor, for instance, saying something like "You pay me X dollars to have your bid considered," that is a corrupt politician but the contractors aren't actually doing anything dishonest; they're just trying to stay in business.

 

[Boxlicker101]

As for deep state. I think getting deep throat is more fun.