Posted on 09/24/2019 1:07:52 PM PDT by grumpygresh
Federal narcotics agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration raided several Kaiser Permanente pharmacies along the West Coast Sept. 18, according to The Oregonian.
The inquiry is part of a Los Angeles-based investigation. Federal narcotic officers from the agency's diversion control office used administrative inspection warrants to search records to determine if legitimately made controlled substances were being diverted for illicit drug use.
"We are fully cooperating with the DEA to provide the agency with the information they are seeking. As always, we are committed to complying with all state and federal regulations and ensuring the safety of our patients and members," Mike Foley, a spokesperson for Kaiser Permanente, told The Oregonian.
It is unclear how many warrants were served, but a pharmacy in Portland, Ore., Woodland Hills, Calif., and Riverside, Calif., were searched, according to California news station
Raiding Kaiser is extraordinary and I doubt that the DEA would take on a multi-billion dollar enterprise without just cause.
The bigger and older it is—Biz or any Org - the more it gets corrupted..
Re drugs..how difficult is it to track orders for them? 10 Million pills to a town of 2500 in W.Va.?? Sumtin smell ?
The IMF is a good example.....That ol’ gal rode it head up the EU..Another world !!
501 C3 is a permit to screw the world...Ask the KLINTOONS !
On and On etc etc etc
Waiting for further reports, which might more fully explain what is behind it all. Not rushing to judgement, though I am not a big fan of either the DEA or Kaiser.
“..used administrative inspection warrants to search records,,”
Probably got a tip from a pusher on where he/she obtained their prescription drugs in such high numbers.
You might be right.
Yes. I’m from the federal government. Trust me.
We have had the war on drugs for nearly 50 years and the drug trade has never been better and overdose deaths have never been greater. Now that’s job security; just like the war on poverty and the war on terror.
Now tell me, do you really believe that they just burn those billions of drugs? Or do you think that they might “recycle” them?
Raiding Kaiser makes perfect sense because that is where he money is. They have done this to other biggies like Walgreens. It’s just a shake down. They will do their usual thing of intimidating and flipping witnesses, fabricating evidence, parallel construction and entrapment.
Shake off the cognitive dissonance and look into HBSC money laundering. Politicians, cartels and agents are all in on the fun. That’s why the uni-party will never secure the border.
https://tragedyandhope.com/hsbc-whistleblower-john-cruz/
AT least they aren’t going after the US Banks that are laundering Billions of Dollars of drug money, see HSBC
I wouldn’t.
Kaiser handles many scripts. How are they to be sure all of them are legit, without reviewing all doctor’s office visits, diagnoses, and second guessing licensed physicians?
This seems like more “doing-something is better than looking like we’re doing nothing” nonsense.
I do not believe for a second that Kaiser would put their entire business plan in jeopardy to traffic narcotics.
“Kaiser handles many scripts. How are they to be sure all of them are legit,”
They do use undercover agents and criminals as informants. You’d have to think that they flood these pharmacies with these people to set them up with fake scripts and fake IDs. They don’t have to disclose the identity of criminal informants so public accountability is mostly impossible.
This another example of dysfunctional federal government agencies a using their power and we need to put a stop to it via jury nullification. We can’t trust these people anymore.
It is a real quandary.
Putting government in charge of health care is bad only when Obama does it.
I don’t think so, and had we had a good leader of the House and Senate the first two years of Trump’s term in office, we would have replaced Obamacare > IMO.
Ryan and McConnell made it quite clear they had no interest in tackling Trump’s agenda with him.
Who was this private sector guy thinking he was going to march into Washington and show them how things should be done?
I still maintain, those two will go down in history for being two of the biggest fools of all time.
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