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FedEx indicted on new criminal charges in online pharmacy case
Reuters ^ | Aug 15, 2014 | Dan Levine

Posted on 08/15/2014 4:12:07 PM PDT by Innovative

FedEx Corp faces a new charge of conspiring to launder money in a U.S. criminal case over the company's drug deliveries for rogue online pharmacies despite warnings from law enforcement.

The latest indictment, filed in court on Friday, said FedEx accepted payment from several pharmacies when it knew the revenue was the product of invalid prescriptions.

If convicted, FedEx could face fines of up to roughly $1.6 billion.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alinsky; fedex; fedexindicted; government; unionizing; unions
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To: Innovative

It’s not about “drug dealing,” but the Feds have relied upon FedX to voluntarily cooperate in the past.

From now on, if I were FedX, and the Feds wanted to run some interdiction operations at a hub, I’d say “Go get a warrant.”


21 posted on 08/15/2014 5:31:08 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: henkster

I think it’s the pharma industry in the US that is behind this. Trying by any means necessary to shut down the less expensive Canadian meds.


22 posted on 08/15/2014 5:36:31 PM PDT by Wicket (1 Peter 3:15 , Romans 5:5-8)
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To: Wicket

Agreed.

We have become a very corrupt nation.


23 posted on 08/15/2014 5:58:51 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Innovative

Why does the government get to determine what kind of pharmaceuticals we take? It’s none of their business. These laws need to be repealed.


24 posted on 08/15/2014 6:11:46 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

It volunteered itself and it was invited.

Now it’s shown itself to be a pretty piss-poor substitute for God.


25 posted on 08/15/2014 6:15:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: clintonh8r
"I can tell you from my experience as a former banker that FedGov wants business to be a law enforcement agency...

Yep. For instance the FEDGOV wants businesses to be responsible for discerning if an employee is an illegal alien and if they hire someone who is they can be fined and in some cases arrested.

Myself I think the government can shove it and close the [censored] border and eliminate the problem. Why is it my responsibility to do law enforcement when the FEDGOV won't even build a damn fence across the border?

26 posted on 08/15/2014 6:21:52 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Innovative

IS THIS perhaps an assault on free enterprise to favor a government postal service in deep doo doo financially?


27 posted on 08/15/2014 6:43:06 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Innovative
Obama Bagged $18 Million In Corporate, Special Interest Cash For Second Inauguration
breitbart.com ^ | April 29, 2013 | Wynston Hall

"Obama’s big money corporate donors included:...FedEx--$500,000"


28 posted on 08/15/2014 8:25:12 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

Thanks for the info - I guess Obama thought FedEx should have given him more...


29 posted on 08/15/2014 8:37:56 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Paulie

I may be mistaken, but isn’t the CEO of FedEx conservative leaning?


30 posted on 08/15/2014 8:54:00 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: Innovative

Well, not long ago, the government went after UPS for less. Instead of trying to defend itself in court, UPS settled by cooperating, giving the government $40 million and helping to watch for any attempts at illegitimate use of its services. Looks like Federal Express was next in line for investigating, and the feds hit the jackpot there.

Federal Express has been running some interesting political speech campaigns including quite a bit of noise on the Net against UPS. FedEx (Federal Express before) also apparently has some interesting personnel and management policies (whole lotta complaints, especially around last holiday season).

Lowes has also exhibited an interesting presence on the Net, despite its libertine skeletons, pretending to be somehow more conservative than its main competitor to one political side while dramatizing the opposite to the other.

It appears that some big corporations have been emulating Russia’s balkan-esque information tactics. The truth is that most larger corporations have very left-leaning political and social policies while using propaganda and government to regulate against potential competition.


31 posted on 08/15/2014 8:59:16 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: henkster

This is not about drugs you can sniff...

It’s about foreign manufactured Viagra and Cialis.

It’s about protecting their big Pharma donors like Pfizer.


32 posted on 08/15/2014 8:59:31 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Innovative

Yet another bogus Marxist legalism from the most lawless administration in the history of the United States.

What a crock.


33 posted on 08/15/2014 9:21:26 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Innovative
"Controlled substances" are serious stuff. "...pharmacies which had been the subject of criminal prosecutions for supplying drugs without prescriptions..."--also serious.

Controlled substance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In the U.S., the DEA is responsible for suppressing illegal drug use and distribution by enforcing the Controlled Substances Act...Substances are classified according to schedules and consist primarily of potentially psychoactive substances. The controlled substances do not include many prescription items such as antibiotics.[2]

Schedules of controlled substances
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


34 posted on 08/15/2014 9:23:08 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Innovative

See what happens when you don’t pay enough protection money to the Federal government?


35 posted on 08/15/2014 9:43:06 PM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: Innovative

The entire concept of private business, or even individual citizens, policing the activities and services offered to others is a dangerous precedent, and ripe for abuse. A local feed store was prosecuted for selling a raw material for meth, a material that also had other legal uses. The business was convicted for not verifying the material was being used for a legal purpose.

Does Home Depot or Lowes now have to verify any purchase will be used for a legal purpose? Or must every car dealer, or even a private seller, verify that a car being purchased will be used only for a legal purpose? I sell communications equipment that, so far as I know, is used for legal purposes, but what if some of that equipment is somehow diverted and used to support an illegal enterprise? Should I be responsible? Expecting businesses and individuals to be cops is a dangerous precedent. As with FedeX, I will cooperate with the cops, but I have no intention of taking on responsibilities that rightly belong to the cops.

As others have suggested, the word corruption comes to mind when considering some of the areas where government is now sticking their nose. And what else would we expect out of Chicago, either directly or indirectly?


36 posted on 08/16/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by RLM
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To: Paulie

Rumor has it that this has to do with FedEx Field where the Washington Redskins play.


37 posted on 08/18/2014 7:17:15 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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