A former top Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official has accused Congress of putting pharmaceutical company profits ahead of public health in the battle to combat the US’s prescription opioid epidemic.
Federal investigators issued a critical report on three deadly shootings in a U.S. drug operation in Honduras, saying officers and agency officials misrepresented facts on their use of deadly force, follow up investigations were flawed and U.S. officials misled Congress about what happened.
WASHINGTON – With the Secret Service still smarting from its 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, another federal law agency is in hot water over an even more salacious sex scandal – in the same country.
With her agency embroiled in scandal, Michele Leonhart, the chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is expected to step down as soon as Tuesday, a U.S. official familiar with the matter tells NPR’s Carrie Johnson.
U.S. and European authorities announced on Monday that they had busted a “massive” drug and money-laundering scheme being operated by the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah.
NEW YORK – Authorities have made a massive heroin bust in the Bronx.
Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
Mayor de Blasio and his top aides coordinated an illegal fundraising scheme to help elect Democrats to the state Senate in 2014, the top investigator at the state Board of Elections accuses in a blockbuster memo that recommends the DA investigate City Hall.
The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, will visit Israel next weekend in his first official trip to the country since he took office in January 2014, his office was quoted as saying in U.S. media.
The man who shot a member of Mayor de Blasio’s security team with a BB gun near Gracie Mansion was slapped with a slew of charges, cops said early Monday.
