Top DEA member resigns after revelations about previous consulting for Big Pharma

The man is another example of the ethical concern of government high ups who have switched from industry to government leadership

The second-in-command at the Drug Enforcement Administration has resigned amid a new report that he previously consulted for Big Pharma, including a company called Purdue Pharma, a pharmaceutical company at the center of the prescription drug opioid epidemic, which has since been sanctioned for suspicious painkiller shipments and under the spotlight amidst the opioid epidemic.

The official, Louis Milione, worked at the agency for 21 years, until 2017 when he took a job to do consulting for Big Pharma.

In 2021, Milione returned to the DEA to serve as top deputy for the Administrator Anne Milgram, according to the Associated Press.

The proper position of No. 2 for the DEA – “deputy administrator” – has been empty for years.

The position Milione held as the DEA's No. 2 – “principal deputy administrator” – has nearly the same duties but requires neither presidential appointment nor congressional consent where scrutiny of conflict of interests could be addressed.

In his consulting, Milione testified on behalf of Morris & Dickson, the country's fourth-largest wholesale drug distributor, which fought to preserve its license to supply painkillers to pharmacies and hospitals, AP reported in May.

Four years ago, a federal administrative judge ruled that the company, during the height of the opioid crisis, failed to flag thousands of suspicious drug orders, but it was only a few days after the wire service inquired about the case that the DEA moved to strip the company's license.

Milione reportedly said this week that he stepped down for personal reasons, which are unrelated to the reporting on him.

He and the Justice Department also said that he kept out of matters in which there may be contention given his previous positions in the business.

Milione also said that just as his consulting helped drug companies comply with DEA standards, so does his return to the DEA give insight into how real-world business decisions are made.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/top-dea-member-quietly-quits-after-previous-consulting-big-pharma-comes

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZvNbulTLWuCs/

CEO of Worldcoin Says “Something Like World ID Will Eventually Exist…Whether You Like It Or Not”

Right now, it’s about those who voluntarily surrender their biometric data and receive “small sums” in Worldcoin in return for signing up to the World ID scheme.

But if Open AI CEO Sam Altman has anything to say about how Worldcoin, a project within his company, develops – everyone who wants to use the internet will eventually be required to use World ID – or “something like it.”

And right now, it seems that people in several southern European countries, notably Spain and Portugal, are simply itching to give away their iris biometrics as proof of identity and right to a cryptocurrency transfer wallet.

The signup process involves exposing your eyes to what’s known as Worldcoin’s Orb iris scanners. If reports are to be believed, the uptake in Spain, where the scheme first became available a year ago, is better than elsewhere – 150,000 participants in total, 20,000 new ones each day, and Barcelona is the place where a number of Orb scanners will be installed.

Portugal is not far behind, with 120,000 participants, and Germany is said to also be warming up to the project, ever since it started expanding two months ago.

All in all, some 2 million “biometric credentials” are now operated by Worldcoin. Why do people sign up for it?

“Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will need to verify [you are human] on the internet, whether you like it or not,” Blania said.

“Whether you like it or not” are the “sweet” words everyone does (not) like to hear in connections with something like that, but that is what Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania decided to go for when describing the future.

In it, according to Blania, digital ID will be so prevalent that it will become inevitable, and there will be no escaping verifying the quality of being human (and likely, quite a few more things) online – if one wants to be online at all.

And whether one “likes it or not.” Blania links it to “progress” in “AI,” and predicts this will be happening as soon as within a couple of years.

Remember when you thought CAPTCHA were bad for your privacy, and for the way they effectively outsource your labor? Well now CAPTCHA’s are apparently considered outdated, as new iterations of “AI” is showing us the way to the brave new world.

https://reclaimthenet.org/world-id-whether-you-like-it-or-not

NYC mayor announces new restrictions for migrants, as shelters reach "full capacity"

Migrants will have 60 days to find permanent housing after entering New York City's shelters under Mayor Eric Adams' plan.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that over 90,000 migrants have come to the city since April, 2022, during a meeting on Wednesday.

Adams also announced that migrants living in the city’s shelters will have 60 days to find permanent housing or risk losing their shelter.

“We have reached full capacity…we have no more room in the city.” Adams said.

The city will try to deter migrants at the border by distributing flyers saying, “There is no guarantee we will be able to provide shelter and services to new arrivals,” “Housing in NYC is very expensive,” and, “Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.”

The rate of migrants entering New York City shelters has remained high. Over 2,000 migrants entered the city’s shelters last week, according to New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom.

Adams criticized the practice of states shipping migrants to New York and other large cities.

“This has now become a playbook that many of our bordering states are carrying out. Using a funnel system, funneling asylum seekers and migrants to New York City…This cannot continue, it’s not sustainable and we’re not going to pretend as though it is sustainable.”

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/nyc-mayor-announces-new-restrictions-migrants-shelters-reach-full-capacity

IRS Whistleblower Says Hunter Biden's Attorneys Made 'False Statements' And 'Threatened' Prosecutors

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower Gary Shapley accused Hunter Biden’s attorneys of making false statements about him after he testified about the Hunter Biden investigation to the House Ways & Means Committee.

Shapley testified Wednesday to the House Oversight Committee about the Hunter Biden investigation and claimed Biden’s attorneys spread an “error-filled” letter with “false statements” about him.

“Even last fall, Biden family attorneys attacked investigators in the pages of The Washington Post and threatened the prosecutors with career suicide if they brought charges against the president’s son. Then one of the Biden family attorneys sends to the press a 10-page, error-filled letter that attacked me with innuendo, false statements, and baseless speculation that I had leaked information to The Washington Post. These statements by Biden family attorneys are false,” Shapley testified.

Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, wrote a letter to the House Ways & Means Committee in late June that appeared to spread falsehoods about Shapley and the other IRS whistleblower. Lowell accused Shapley of leaking information to The Washington Post and fabricating an alleged text Hunter Biden sent to a Chinese official.

Shapley’s attorneys have demanded The Washington Post correct Lowell’s accusations and publicly disclose that Shapley was not a source for an October 2022 story about the Hunter Biden investigation. The IRS agent previously testified to the House Ways & Means Committee that the text allegedly sent by Hunter Biden to a Chinese official was obtained from a search warrant for Biden’s iCloud files.

Additionally, Lowell said the IRS whistleblowers were not informed about the penalties for false testimony, despite whistleblower transcripts showing otherwise. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Shapley described in his written testimony how Biden’s attorneys allegedly tried pressuring the Department of Justice (DOJ) into launching a criminal investigation for his whistleblowing.

“After my testimony was released, we received a request for a comment from a reporter claiming that Mr. Biden’s attorneys had sent a letter to the Justice Department lobbying for a retaliatory criminal inquiry against me for my protected whistleblowing. The press did not share a copy of this alleged letter with us, and I have still not seen it,” Shapley said in his written testimony.

“But, it is chilling to think that after threatening prosecutors with ‘career suicide,’ Mr. Biden’s attorneys would be so bold as to actually lobby in writing for his father’s Justice Department to prosecute the whistleblower who disclosed preferential treatment for the President’s son,” Shapley added.

The DOJ declined to comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/19/irs-whistleblower-hunter-biden-attorneys-false-statements-gary-shapley/

George Clooney calls for ‘dismantling’ of Wagner PMC

Two American celebrity activists have urged Western nations to use their experience of Al-Qaeda to tackle the Russian group

The US and its allies should seize the opportunity to sanction and prosecute the Wagner private military company in the wake of the aborted mutiny by its chief, Evgeny Prigozhin, according to two American celebrity activists.

The call was made on Monday by actor George Clooney and author John Prendergast, who also served on the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton. They said there was an “unprecedented opportunity to counter” Russia’s influence in Africa by going after Wagner.

In a column they wrote for The Economist magazine, Clooney and Prendergast described the private military company as one of Moscow’s “most successful foreign-policy initiatives during the past decade” and an “atrocity.”

Wagner has been offering security services to some governments in Africa. The celebrities claimed the group was “protecting the regime [in the Central African Republic] in exchange for mineral concessions” and a way to “hijack a government.” They promoted a report on Wagner’s activities released by their NGO, The Sentry, which alleged that the group “seeks to disable multinational predatory networks.”

Evgeny Prigozhin led a brief mutiny in Russia last month, moving some of the group’s forces from Ukraine towards Russian cities. The maneuver was aborted after a deal was struck with the government, which offered him exemption from prosecution in exchange for going into de facto exile.

Clooney and Prendergast believe that the Wagner Group’s presence in Africa, which they described as a “virus,” will continue. However, the transition period can be used by Western nations to “take action against both the operation and its originator.”

“They should create an ad hoc coalition aimed at dismantling the group’s business empire, building on lessons from similar efforts focused on Islamic State and Al-Qaeda,” they suggested.

Islamic State emerged in the mid-2010s amid chaos in Iraq and Syria. Iraq had been occupied by a US-led coalition a decade earlier. Syria was hit by Western-supported anti-government protests in 2011, which quickly escalated into a civil war. Some of Washington’s closest regional allies, such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, reportedly supplied arms to anti-Damascus groups, as did the CIA.

Al-Qaeda stemmed from the US-backed campaign to support anti-Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan in the 1980s. While Washington considers it a terrorist organization, in 2012 Jake Sullivan infamously celebrated the fact that it was “on our side” in Syria, according to leaked US diplomatic cables. The incumbent national security adviser to US President Joe Biden was serving in Hillary Clinton’s Department of State at the time.

https://www.rt.com/news/579953-clooney-prendergast-wagner-group/

‘El Pollo’ Carvajal Extradited to US for Drug Trafficking: Former Venezuelan Espionage Chief Holds Secrets That Can Destroy Latin American Leftist Regimes

The Spanish national court, charged with extradition matters, made a decision that may have a broad impact in the Latin American geopolitical landscape.

By ordering on Tuesday Interpol to ‘immediately deliver’ Hugo Carvajal to US authorities, Spanish judges may have lit the fuse than can set leftist regimes on fire throughout Latin America.

‘El Pollo’ (the chicken} Carvajal was stripped of his General rank in Venezuelan Counter-Intelligence by Maduro’s administration after he made the failed political bet of coming out in support of the US-supported opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s acting president, in February 2019.

Carvajal was finally arrested in Madrid in September 2021, on a drug trafficking Interpol search warrant.

Reuters reported:

“The former head of Venezuela’s military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal, who is wanted by the United States on drug trafficking charges, has left Spain under a High Court extradition order, his lawyer and a court source told Reuters on Wednesday.

Carvajal is expected to arrive in the United States later in the day and could make an initial court appearance on Thursday morning, his lawyer, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, said.”

The Spanish court ordered Carvajal’s immediate extradition after the European Court of Human Rights rejected his last attempt to avoid being sent to the US.

Carvajal was Chavez’s eyes and ears within Venezuela’s military for more than a decade, and he knows many secrets about the continental socialist movement in Latin America.

“The United States in 2020 accused Carvajal of drug trafficking, along with more than a dozen other high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including President Nicolas Maduro. Carvajal has denied supporting cocaine trafficking to the United States.”

The European court of human rights ended up rejecting his appeal against extradition to the US, arguing it was not proven he faces a ‘real risk’ of ‘being sentenced to life imprisonment without chance of parole’.

The Guardian reported:

“Gen Hugo Armando Carvajal, who served as intelligence chief under the former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, has long been sought by US Treasury officials who suspect him of providing support to drug trafficking by the now disarmed Farc guerrilla group in Colombia.

Prosecutors in New York allege he used his high office to coordinate the smuggling of approximately 5,600kg (12,345lb) of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico in 2006 that was destined for the US.

Known by the nickname “El Pollo” – the Chicken – the 63-year-old is also suspected of potentially having incriminating evidence against the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, Chavez’s successor and a major adversary of the US.”

But ‘El Pollo’ holds secret over more than just Venezuela’s strong man. A whole network of people in power indebted to the Bolivarian socialists exists in the region.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/el-pollo-carvajal-extradited-us-drug-trafficking-former/

MTG on White House Cocaine Scandal: ‘First Family Should Submit to Drug Test’

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called on President Joe Biden and his family to submit to drug testing after cocaine was found in the West Wing of the White House in early July.

The Secret Service closed its investigation last week into who left cocaine in a cubbyhole in the West Wing, the agency stating that it was “not able” to “single out a person of interest” because of a lack of physical evidence. However, a security source has contradicted the Secret Service, telling Soldier of Fortune magazine White House officials have confirmed who brought cocaine into the White House via fingerprint analysis. Some veteran investigators have said they believe the Secret Service is engaging in a “cover-up.”

“I had a classified briefing with my (Committee on Oversight and Accountability) members with Secret Service, and I don’t think we’ll ever find out whose cocaine it was in the White House,” Greene told Breitbart News during an interview on Saturday in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Because the day we had the briefing, just this past week, Secret Service told us they were closing their investigation the very next day, and they have no idea who it is.”

Greene alleged that the Secret Service has a list of “approximately 500 individuals that they have as a potential suspect list” but decided not to drug test and did not find any usable fingerprints.

“Well, you know, most Americans have to undergo a drug test just to get employed or as a routine part of their employment. Athletes have to go through drug tests to be on a sports team. Drug tests are common, but they are refusing to drug test any of these people. They’re refusing to do anything with fingerprints and things like that,” the congresswoman alleged.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/19/exclusive-mtg-wh-cocaine-scandal-first-family-should-submit-drug-test/

Biden Family Business Paid $7.3M from Burisma over Years, Including When Joe Biden Was VP

Burisma Holdings paid the Biden family business $7.3 million over the course of many years, including when President Joe Biden was vice president, IRS agent Joseph Ziegler told Congress.

While speaking before House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), Ziegler confirmed the Biden business received a total of $7.3 million starting in 2014.

“How much money did Hunter Biden and his business associates receive from the Ukrainian company Burisma?” Comer asked Ziegler.

“Burisma paid to everyone involved 6.5 million,” he replied.

“Burisma also paid Blue Star strategies and a law firm hundreds of hundreds of thousands of dollars bringing the total Burisma payments to over $7 million. Is that correct?” Comer asked.

“That is correct. 7.3 million,” Ziegler said.

“Between 2014 and 2019, this brings the total amount of foreign income streams received to approximately $17 million,” Comer stated, after which Ziegler confirmed.

In April 2014, Hunter joined the board of Burisma, just two years before Joe Biden stated he forced the firing of Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who investigated Burisma. Despite Hunter’s lack of experience in Ukraine or the energy sector, he was paid $83,000 per month by the energy company, or $1 million per year — just weeks after his father was announced “point person” on U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine.

According to an FBI informant file reviewed by the committee, Joe and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until President Poroshenko fired the prosecutor.

Comer also asked the witness how much the family business made from other deals in Romania and China.

“How much money did Hunter Biden and his associates receive from the Romanian company you identified?” Comer asked.

“The approximate total transfers from the Romania company would have been $3.1 million to everyone,” he said.

Shell companies linked to the Biden business received millions from entities in Romania. One of the largest payouts came in 2015 from Gabriel Popoviciu, who worked with CEFC.

The House Oversight Committee revealed in March that CEFC controlled State Energy HK Limited, a company linked to the $1.3 million collective payments to the Biden family members.

Through the Biden family’s suspicious activity reports (SARs), the committee discovered a Biden associate, Rob Walker, received a $3 million wire transfer. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/19/biden-business-paid-7-3m-burisma-years-including-when-joe-biden-vp/

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Parts of Auckland CBD shutdown after reports of shooting

Parts of Auckland CBD in New Zealand have been shutdown by police after reports of a shooting.

Armed police have been seen running through the city, where at least six people have been injured.

Police have not confirmed there has been a shooting, but have a advised a "serious incident" has been contained to a building under construction on lower Queen Street.

People are being asked to avoid the area, while people in downtown inner-city buildings are being told to stay inside their buildings.

"This is a significant incident with multiple emergency services responding," a police spokesperson has advised.

"A large police presence will remain in the area.

"Police will provide a further update as soon as we are in a position to do so."

St John Ambulance has said three people have been seriously injured and three people have been "moderately injured".

Photos of construction workers sheltering on top of a building have been circulating, as has vision of a police officer being ushered into an ambulance with what appears to be injury to his face.

It's understood the incident began about 7.30am NZST.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has reportedly cancelled his travel today and is on his way back to the Beehive.

He is expected to speak after being brief by officials on the incident.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/auckland-shooting-parts-of-auckland-cbd-shutdown-after-reports-of-shooting/94d67d99-fb75-4855-af3f-4b4f28dca9b3

Rep. Shontel Brown to IRS whistleblower in Hunter Biden case:

"Will this hearing help alleviate the racial disparities in the rates of the IRS audits?"

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1681774523975188480

Former Venezuelan Official Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios Extradited To The United States On Narco-Terrorism, Firearms, And Drug Trafficking Charges

Carvajal Barrios Allegedly Participated in Large-Scale Drug-Trafficking Activities as a Venezuelan Government Official, Including a 5.6-Ton Cocaine Shipment

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-venezuelan-official-hugo-armando-carvajal-barrios-extradited-united-states

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