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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 09:45 AM Mar 2020

Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment.

A Republican U.S. Attorney in Texas thought the evidence was damning. Trump’s political appointees? Not so much.


On a Tuesday just before Halloween in 2018, a group of federal prosecutors and agents from Texas arrived in Washington. For almost two years, they’d been investigating the opioid dispensing practices of Walmart, the largest company in the world. They had amassed what they viewed as highly damning evidence only to face a major obstacle: top Trump appointees at the Department of Justice.

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.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/walmart-was-almost-charged-criminally-over-opioids-trump-appointees-killed-the-indictment/

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Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment. (Original Post) douglas9 Mar 2020 OP
Added to my list of reasons why I don't shop at Walmart northoftheborder Mar 2020 #1
That is how crime families work, they watch out for each other. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #2
Walmart got its fix. Sneederbunk Mar 2020 #3

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
2. That is how crime families work, they watch out for each other.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 10:02 AM
Mar 2020

Just think how much more funding will now go to re-elect Trump and other Republicans.

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