Posted on 07/17/2014 9:52:44 PM PDT by Innovative
Federal Express was indicted Thursday on federal charges alleging that it distributed prescription drugs and other controlled substances to people that the company knew had no prescriptions on behalf of illegal Internet pharmacies.
"We want to be clear what's at stake here: The government is suggesting that FedEx assume criminal responsibility for the legality of the contents of the millions of packages that we pick up and deliver every day,” said Patrick Fitzgerald, a senior FedEx official. “We are a transportation company -- we are not law enforcement. We have no interest in violating the privacy of our customers. We continue to stand ready and willing to support and assist law enforcement. We cannot, however, do the job of law enforcement ourselves."
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Gummit. Will. Get. Laughed. Out. Of. Court.
Yep.
the Dems want more money.
Seriously? Money in the form of forced contributions to mr. mulato and his minions, only they are not cute and yellow, oh no, fudge packers take on a distinctly different coloration.
I disagree as to the purpose. This is about loot. This is how the govt is trying to finance itself. They’ve just about run out of big banks to sue so they’re looking for other deep pockets. Now the EPA is suing companies with the dual purpose of control and money but this is purely about cash.
Is it true that UPS is union and FedEx is not?
Maybe the Feds are just trying to help “working families”.
Ah, the Drug War, it’s for children, doncha know.
Color me confused...FedEx indicted on federal charges for transportation of illegal substances. Yet, the federal government is knowingly and willingly failing to enforce it’s own federal laws concerning the sale and possession of schedule 1 controlled substances. Not to mention the failure to enforce it’s laws regarding what constitutes a legal pharmacy. “Internet” pharmacies do not meet the strict criteria of pharmacies and cannot show documented evidence of a patient/doctor relationship. I seriously doubt anyone involved in internet pharmacy holds a graduate degree from any accredited school of pharmacy and has passed NABPLEX. But WTH, it’s just laws and who cares?
This is no where near a criminal case w/ people going to trial. This is an indictment of a corporation handed down by a San Francisco grand jury. While we keep hearing that corporations are not people, we also hear that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich.
But the indictment alleges that the company continued to distribute controlled substances and prescription drugs on behalf of the Chhabra-Smoley Organization and Superior Drugs. They did so even after officials knew they had been closed down by state and federal law enforcement agencies and that their owners, operators, pharmacists, and doctors had been indicted, arrested and convicted of illegally distributing drugs, it said.
How do you deliver packages for a company that is no longer in business?
Congress votes for a bill so they can find out what’s inside, but Fedex is supposed to know what’s inside a box?
At crash rescue school I was taught that FedEx was the largest transporter of hazardous materiel in the world.
And most of it was label as something else to save money on shipping.
Not really. In fact FDX carries the USPS small package volume on its planes. The USPS small package volume isn’t very large although it is subsidized by the cost of first class mail. (Full disclosure - I worked for UPS for 8 years. Some of them in competitive analysis where I ran the group the studied FDX and USPS)
Public company. Top 10 shareholders are:
1) PRIMECAP 6.38%
2) Vanguard 5.38%
3) Dodge & Cox 5.13%
4) Southeastern Asset management 4.43%
5) Harris Associates 4.32%
6) SSqA Funds Management 4.04%
7) BlackRock 3.69%
8) T. Rowe 3.47%
9) Fidelity 3.47%
10) Wellington management 2.86%
Yes it is true. FDX is regulated under as an airline company, which is governed by the Railway Labor Act while UPS is regulated as trucking companies governed by the National Labor Relations Act.
UPS and USPS are both teamsters shops
FedEx employees are non-union.
FedEx non union and deep pockets.
Is there anyone tracking the huge penalties and fines the DOJ is collecting? ($7B from Citi, $13B from JPM just this week)
“FedEx indicted on federal charges for transportation of illegal substances.”
There is NO proof that they are “illegal” — they deliver, among many other things — PRESCRIPTION DRUGS — and there is no way of knowing for sure whether people have legitimate prescriptions for these drugs or not and it’s NOT the duty of FedEx to demand that people show them a prescription.
STUPID.
Earlier this year we were DOD MANDATED by 4/14/14 to mail order all our daily scripts from Express Scripts or use Military Base Dispensary. The only Scripts exempt are ER ones or a sudden antibiotic needed one.
TRICARE LIFE Retired Military over 65 4/14/2014!
DOD MANDATE!
Tricare Life (Ret Military over 65)NO CHOICE BUT TO COMPLY. Only exception is a antibiotic, a 1 time script, or pain med for surgery. Other wise you pick up 100% of cost of your Daily Meds.4/14/2014!
DOD MANDATE is forcing us to use either Base whose drugs are limited by size of base and is not wheel chair or handicap friendly or Express Scripts MANDATED Tricare Life. 4/14/14. Express Scripts is a sorry excuse of a provider. You never know if your order is right, what generic, what manufacture, they will over ride a DAW script at their whim or what country. All stuffed into your mail box UN PHOTO ID SIGNED FOR making them available to thieves and meth makers to steal. Or Neighborhood kids to access.
READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO ALLOW THEM ACCESS TO YOUR BANK OR CREDIT CARD INFO.
USPS just stuffs twice per every 90 days nearly $2K worth of dangerous meds in a hot humid mail box UN PHOTO ID SIGNED FOR. Our neighborhood is crawling with kids and teens.
Express Scripts Accused Of Defrauding State And Consumers Out Of Millions Of Dollars
http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/express-scripts-accused-defrauding-state-and-consumers-out-millions-dollars
NY attorney general sues Express Scripts, Benefits firm accused of inflating prices, keeping up to $100 Million
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5601076/ns/business-corporate_scandals/t/ny-attorney-general-sues-express-scripts/#.U381ECh7SMQ
Express Scripts Extortion Scheme Widens
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/09/express_scripts_breach.html
Express Scripts complaints
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/rx/express_scripts.html
ES Customer Service ranking
http://www.customerservicescoreboard.com/Express+Scripts
Express Scripts RIP OFF
https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/directory/express-scripts
ES buys out Medco
29 Billion
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120402/NEWS/304029961
I miss the rule of law. Why would FedEx have the responsibility or even the right to question the contents of packages? While some must contain prescription drugs, I suspect others contain supplements that are not regulated. While I will not buy from questionable online dealers, I don’t think it’s FedGov’s business to interfere in this manner - it’s the customer’s choice. Obama and his minions disgust me.
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