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Financing Terror
Freedman delves into the world of "hawala," an informal and often untraceable method of transferring money from the U.S. and throughout the Middle East. The U.S. government contends that in addition to operating as a way to transfer legal funds from one family member to another, the hawala system has also been used to launder money from illegal trafficking in humans and drugs and to get money to terrorists. As of the publication date of this article, federal law enforcement agencies have not succeeded in prosecuting any high profile cases, nor any cases involving terrorist groups.
Tags: international terrorism; money laundering; terror networks; international money transfers
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Prescription for Pain
The stories demonstrated that Eastern Kentucky led the nation in the distribution of prescription narcotics-much of it illegal. Reporters found a series of unlikely accomplices to the illegal trafficing including the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Local cops were corrupt or compromised and a $30 million federal enforcement effort was rendered ineffective by a lack of cooperation among the police agencies involved. The reports found an elected judge who admitted that he'd had private business dealings with rug dealers and was unilaterally lowering drug offenders' sentences set by plea bargains. The reporters also found that effecive drug treatment was hard to find in rural areas of Kentucky. The newspaper also produced an examination of how OxyContin was marketed through "detailing," the practice of sending sales men directly into doctor's offices. The reporting also took readers inside one local drug ring. Finally, the newspaper examined how public Medicaid payments were providing some rural Kentucy drug dealsers with millions of silent partners-U.S. taxpayers- who were helping to ensure their supply.
Tags: prescription narcotis; illegal trafficking; federal Drug Enforcement Administration; OxyContin; painkillers; FBI; methanphetamine; taxpayers; medicaid; substance abuse; rural Kentucky; Social Security Administrationn; drug traffickers; drug abuse; lortab; tylox; xanax; cocaine; marijuana; Lee County Sheriff's Department; Beattyville; Beattyville Police; Operation Grinch; Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program; HIDTA; Kentucky State Police; Office of National Drug Control Policy
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The Jack in the Box Shootings
The Post-Dispatch refutes the official police version about the shooting of two suspects by undercover drug detectives in June 2000. The story reveals that -- contrary to what the detectives claimed -- the suspects' car was moving away from the detectives when they fired, not forward toward the detectives.
Tags: crime; collision expertise; Missouri Sunshine Law; law enforcement; self-defense; African Americans; U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
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Torpedoed G-man unit rising like phoenix from its ashes
A San Antonio Business Journal investigation discovers that inspectors of the U.S. Customs are linked to Mexican drug traffickers. The package of stories reveals the covered-up findings of a federal task force that was originally created to investigate law-enforcement corruption in Arizona, but several years later was hastily disbanded. Conroy examines how the suppressed cases are connected to the suspected murder of a former Customs supervisor.
Tags: U.S./Mexico border; law enforcement; Department of Justice; FBI; special agents; intelligence; federal agencies; whistleblowers
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DWB* (*Driving While Black)
Esquire reports on the DEA's program Operation Pipeline, an attempt to stop interstate drug trafficking that has come under file for encouraging, if not sponsoring, racial profiling. Despite numerous civil rights law suits and statistics that show an overwhelming majority of the motorists pulled over are black and Hispanic, the DEA still calls the program one of its "most successful." The Supreme Court basically handed law enforcement a license to do these kind of searches when it ruled that a cop can pull someone over for any minor traffic violation. U.S. District Judge James Carrigan wrote a criticism of the program which said, the task force, "systematically violated the constitutionally protected rights of blacks and Hispanics to travel and be free from unreasonable seizures."
Tags: racial profiling; law enforcement; operation pipeline; Drug Enforcement Agency; U.S. Supreme Court; Whren decision
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Drug Control or Biowarfare?
"The story unveiled a secret government plan to use Colombia as a testing ground for Fusarium oxysporum, a fungus-based herbicide, as a new biological weapon in the war on drugs; the power and personage behind the effort, and the lack of oversight, monitoring, and informed consent from stakeholders on health and environmental concerns. (The) story detailed how the fungus was initially clandestinely isolated and developed by various government agencies and how the U.S. worked to force the experimental agent on Colombian authorities for use against coca, poppy, and marijuana."
Tags: deforestation; USDA; Peru; fungus; Plan Columbia; Rep. Ben Gilman; mycoherbicide (fungus plant killer); human health; farming; immune system; State Department of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement; Monsanto Roundup; United Nations
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The Dominican Connection
This article reveals that the "CIA was very interested and involved in an investigation ... that found ties between local drug deals and a prominent U.S.-backed political party in the Dominical Republic. ... Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors were aware that a Dominican political party was selling drugs in the U.S."
Tags: diskette; drugs; law; law enforcement; politics
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Singled Out
WAGA-TV reports "a statistical analysis of six months' worth of passenger searches by U.S. Customs inspectors at Hartsfield International Airport. We found inspectors routinely targeted African-American passengers looking for drugs. The searches included hands-on body searches, strip searches, monitored bowel movements and x-rays of passenger's intestines at a local hospital. The analysis determined inspectors rarely found drugs. In fact, of all the African-American passengers searched in six months, 99 percent were innocent.."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT CAR racial profiling DEA Drug Enforcement Agency Port Authorities Justice Department
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Blind Justice (series of ten articles)
A criminal ring of Puerto Rican policemen, dubbed "the Fabricators" by a previous El Vocero investigation (see story # 14384), finally were found guilty by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court of inventing cases and lying to investigators. The U.S. Justice Department admitted its role in covering up the corruption, but halted further investigations.
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According to the Utne Reader, Criminal informants may be the real winners in the American Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) drug war. This article looks at how professional rats make thousands of dollars off the U.S. government by convincing the DEA they can turn in Class One drug offenders. Because agents with the highest percentages of Class One drug offenders earn the highest bonuses, federal agents will stop at nothing short of entrapment to find a Class One conviction. (May/June 1996)
Tags: Levine King Rats Narrative Drug laws Federal prosecution 9 pgs.