Posted on 06/30/2016 8:42:05 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The U.S. Department of Justice has put little if any effort into investigating the IRS over its targeting of conservative groups (even single individuals, such as Professor Mary Grabar, for daring to oppose Common Core), but it has the resources for far-fetched prosecutions of business officials for alleged criminal activity.
One such case recently crashed after almost two years of legal skirmishing in federal district court. The crime the feds were going after was an imaginary conspiracy between FedEx FDX -0.41% officials and online pharmacies to ship sleep aids, sedatives, painkillers and other medications to customers who didn’t have valid prescriptions. Somehow, FedEx was supposed to know which packages were illegal.
Of all the lunacy brought about by the war on drugs, it’s hard to top that.
For one thing, the company had repeatedly told federal officials that they would stop dealing with any shippers known to be sending illegal drugs. All they needed was a list of such shippers, but the government refused that offer of cooperation. One might therefore conclude that going after a high-profile corporate defendant for a gigantic fine ($1.6 billion) was of more interest to the prosecutors than stopping some illicit shipments.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Interesting story. I’ll have to be content with the excerpt though. The Forbes website is so laden with junk as to be completely unusable, at least for me.
Impossible to read a Forbes story from an iPhone. I’ll try from computer later. Looks interesting.
The founder of Fedex strikes me as someone who doesn’t play ball with Big Corrupt Government so they went after him.
It’s not about enforcement of law, it’s about the selective application thereof.
+1
"A fascinating tidbit of information is that when the government launched a similar case against UPS back in 2013, UPS decided to settle, paying out a mere $40 million to make the case go away. "
Sounds just like that guitar manufacturer in Tennessee a while back. Limited targeting of only political enemies.......
Blatant extortion.
Fedex had it for the 2010 census.
It's lucrative.
Best argument going for looser pays!!
I’m on a computer and can’t read it either.
I guess they don’t believe in QA
It sounds like part of the obama/holder protection racket, wherein the court-ordered settlement carried specific instructions on which favored organizations were to receive their cut of the settlement dough.
It locked up my browser. I had to shut down and reboot my browser to get out. It was stuck on their start up page.
I will never go to Forbes again. This happens everytime I have tried to go there in the past month.
Website designers are a dime a dozen. I guess Forbes is pinching a nickel.
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