First major drug distribution company, former executives, criminally charged in opioid crisis
Rochester Drug Co-Operative, one of the top 10 largest drug distributors in the United States, was charged Tuesday with conspiracy to violate narcotics laws, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., and willfully failing to file suspicious order reports. "This prosecution is the first of its kind: Executives of a pharmaceutical distributor and the distributor itself have been charged with drug trafficking, trafficking the same drugs that are fueling the opioid epidemic that is ravaging this country," Berman said."Our office will do everything in its power to combat this epidemic, from street-level dealers to the executives who illegally distribute drugs from their boardrooms.
And executives at Rochester Drug Co-Operative purposefully kept suspicions of pharmacies' illegal activity from the DEA, fearing investigations into the pharmacies and potentially losing customers, according to a criminal complaint. Rochester Drug Co-Operative announced it has entered into a plea agreement in the criminal case and a settlement in the civil case. The company has agreed to admit to the accusations, submit to supervision by an independent monitor, reform its compliance program and pay a $20 million fine.
Line them up!
Let this be a warning to all drug manufacturing companies,,WERE WATCHING YOU
Please give patients living in severe pain opioids! It takes the pain away! No other pain medicine takes the pain away like opioids!!!!!!!!!
All I know is my friends in daily constant pain are not allowed to get the pain medicine that works. They are given much weaker pain meds that don’t work so they suffer in pain. Horrible quality of life. Opioids work for severe pain.
About damn time, these drugs they sale are killing Americans
Slippery slope. Where are the indictments of FDA bosses
joncoopertweets Arresting the competition trump?
About time! justice
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Waiting for the doctors to face same.
joncoopertweets Finally, CEO's of big business are being indicted for their greedy actions...
BigPharma
Good.. and about time.
Sloppy Sleepy Creepy uncle Joe
What about the congressmen and DEA supervisors who stopped an investigation into the overdistribution of opioids ten years ago?
Good. Cruelty and greed.
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