What was the legitimate need for such information?
Who at the DEA was related to this secretary?
Why did it take twenty years to become known?
Will the secretary be required to refund this "unjust enrichment," in whole or in part?
Who's going to jail?
Who's getting demoted?
I'm tired of typing now--someone else pick it up from here....
Under an agreement, Amtrak police would receive a share of any money seized as a result of such drug task force investigations. Amtrak’s inspector general concluded that the DEA’s purchase of the passenger information deprived the Amtrak Police Department of money it would have received from resulting drug arrests.
DEA went straight to the secretary to keep fewer people from knowing what was going on, meaning the Amtrak police.