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https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...rug-industry-congress/?utm_term=.9e6e2bb3a149
Corruption at it's finest.
The chief advocate of the law that hobbled the DEA was Rep. Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican who is now President Trump’s nominee to become the nation’s next drug czar. Marino spent years trying to move the law through Congress. It passed after Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) negotiated a final version with the DEA. As Rep. Tom Marino’s Pennsylvania district was reeling from the opioid crisis, he sponsored a bill that undermined the Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to stop the flow of pain pills.
For years, some drug distributors were fined for repeatedly ignoring warnings from the DEA to shut down suspicious sales of hundreds of millions of pills, while they racked up billions of dollars in sales.
The new law makes it virtually impossible for the DEA to freeze suspicious narcotic shipments from the companies, according to internal agency and Justice Department documents and an independent assessment by the DEA’s chief administrative law judge in a soon-to-be-published law review article. That powerful tool had allowed the agency to immediately prevent drugs from reaching the street.
Corruption at it's finest.