Posted on 11/20/2022 3:12:47 AM PST by blueplum
As he enters prison, a disgraced former DEA agent who lived a decadent double life has claimed his own crimes were the tip of the iceberg...
...In interviews with the Associated Press, Irizarry, who recently began a 12-year prison sentence, has claimed that corruption is endemic in the powerful US drug agency...
...Irizarry claimed to the Associated Press that dozens of other agents joined in with his debauchery, and that they deliberately tailored drug operations so that they could visit party hotspots...
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And chain gangs.
Bingo! As if we couldn’t stop the drug flow if we wanted to. There’s only one explanation. Human nature is the same on both sides of the border. I’m only surprised it hasn’t been exposed on our side of the border.
In the Hulu series “Dopesick,” the DEA has a good woman and there are two tenacious good US attorneys, but the FDA has the real bad guy.
I know a couple of pricks, no ex-enforcers, who were deputy sheriffs who worked with the DEA on a Regional Drug Task Force known as WESTNET. Both of them were dirty, nasty SOB’s. The WESTNET guys were considered “cowboys”, I considered them over-the-top enforcers because they liked to destroy homes and businesses as they were apprehending suspects. One of them thought of himself as a Karate Kid and would try breaking as much private property with his cool moves as he could…prick.
They planted contraband on people, stole drugs, guns and money. Both were known thugs to the agencies too. However, they got results, until they got sloppy and careless.
The worst was a Sargent until his hubris got too big and started selling stolen guns and other merchandise thru his Renegade Gun & Loan business. He ended up doing 5 years, not nearly long enough. I don’t remember what happened to the other, moved on before prosecution I do believe.
So, if this happens in podunk USA, it’s rife through the agency or should I say AGENCIES.
In the 1990s a legal secretary at a law firm I worked for, who by then was a staid soccer mom, once told that as a young woman in Houston, in the late 1970s, she dated DEA Agents because they always had the best coke...
Hangings are more permanent.
I agree but not sure how you can do that in today’s society.
Once defunding starts that will impact most all agencies and
business across the spectrum. Thus the people of the USA will
be impacted severely jmo.
Our Founding Fathers designed a method of local justice, but many of them. Because of “Boss HOg” situations justice moved up to the state level and then moved up to the federal level.
It is time to move in the other direction.
The genius of the design was to contain corruption in just a few local counties instead of centralizing it, affecting the whole country.
I remember the local justice of the peace. He had to be replaced because he wasn’t a lawyer was the argument.
I repeat corruption can never be eliminated, but we can contain it in smaller units.
Elimination of a lot of laws and regs is required as well as elimination of the corrupt fed bureaucracy.
I share both opinions.
A friend of mine went to DeVry University in Florida for an Associate degree in electronics in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
He got in with a crowd that included a crooked DEA agent and another crooked IRS agent.
He had some really interesting experiences on yachts and private clubs and other interesting places.
One day after he had graduated he just packed up and left because he knew that his life was headed in a bad direction.
Corruption is endemic in the powerful US drug agency
Not just the drug agency D.C. is called the swamp for a reason.
One can imagine it being rather perilous being a DEA agent. Apart from the obvious dangers there’s also the possibility of being offered “silver or lead’ by the cartel. “Take the money,Gringo,or we’ll visit your wife and kids”.
See tagline.
It’s a pretty good clue that the “War on Drugs” is a complete failure that never ends and no one in government ever asks why.
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