Yet Wallmart gets a pass!
Remember the opioid crisis? That was a plague, a scourge, and a public-health emergency that the president* was going to fix behind the strong leadership of Jared Kushner. Well, in our continuing effort to keep an eye on administration corruption and incompetence that is unrelated to the current pandemic, we draw your attention to this story from the good folks at ProPublica.
The prosecution team had come to Washington to try to save its case. Joe Brown, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, led the group, which included Heather Rattan, an over-20-year veteran of the office who had spent much of her career prosecuting members of drug cartels.
They first went to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s headquarters to meet the acting administrator, Uttam Dhillon. There Rattan laid out the evidence. Opioids dispensed by Walmart pharmacies in Texas had killed customers who had overdosed. The pharmacists who dispensed those opioids had told the company they didn’t want to fill the prescriptions because they were coming from doctors who were running pill mills. They pleaded for help and guidance from Walmart’s corporate office.
Investigators had obtained records of similar cries for help from Walmart pharmacists all over the country: from Maine, North Carolina, Kansas and Washington, and other states. They reported hundreds of thousands of suspicious or inappropriate opioid prescriptions. One Walmart employee warned about a Florida doctor who had a “list of patients from Kentucky that have been visiting pharmacies in all of central Wisconsin recently.” That doctor had sent patients to Walmarts in more than 30 other states.
Walmart ignored all these whistleblowers and, in fact, forbade them from cutting off the pill-peddling physicians. In short, these DOJ employees from Texas were preparing to indict and prosecute Walmart on the allegation it was a drug cartel. And, as we see above, they had as much evidence against the corporation as they ever had against Pablo Escobar. So they brought their case to Washington and astonished the acting head of the DEA with it. And then...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...nt-of-justice/
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