Did DEA's Anne Milgram Get Caught in Her Own Marijuana Criminal Algorithms?
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"The ex-New Jersey Attorney General and former DEA Administrator promised to modernize justice through data. Instead, under her watch, illegal marijuana empires flourished - while her own deputies bent the law and broke public trust" said Duane Boise CEO MMJ International Holdings.
WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / October 22, 2025 /
Anne Milgram rose to prominence on a mission to "use data and algorithms to fight crime." As New Jersey's Attorney General from 2007 to 2010, she was praised for bringing analytics to law enforcement. But as DEA Administrator, Milgram's "data-driven" DEA became the very system of corruption, chaos, and incompetence she once claimed algorithms could prevent.
DEA Anne Milgram
A DigitalReformer Turned Bureaucratic Relic
When President Biden appointed Anne Milgram to lead the DEA in 2021, she promised to modernize the agency with analytics and accountability. Instead, she presided over one of the most dysfunctional and scandal-ridden eras in its history.
Under her watch:
Chinese-backed illegal marijuana operations exploded across the U.S., from Oklahoma to Maine. The DEA's own field divisions were overwhelmed - yet leadership in Washington turned a blind eye.
DEA's Diversion Control office,led by Thomas Prevoznik and Matthew Strait, focused its fire not on international criminal networks, but on law-abiding pharmaceutical innovators like MMJ BioPharma Cultivation, which has waited over seven years for a bulk-manufacturing license to grow FDA-approved cannabis for clinical trials.
DEA attorneyAarathi Haig, still active in federal cases despite being listed as ineligible to practice by the New Jersey Bar, defended these unconstitutional delays in federal court - raising serious questions about ethical and legal compliance inside the agency.
"Under Anne Milgram, the DEA ignored actual crime while criminalizing medicine," said Duane Boise, CEO of MMJ International Holdings. "They let illegal Chinese grows flourish while blocking American pharmaceutical research approved by the FDA. It's the definition of hypocrisy."
The Algorithm That Failed
Milgram's academic brand - data science meets law enforcement - collapsed under the weight of her agency's failures. She promised a DEA guided by real time data, but the evidence shows her team ignored the numbers that mattered most:
Explosive growth in Chinese financed cartel grows operating openly across rural America.
A DEA licensing backlog that left scientific research frozen for nearly a decade.
A federal court system now rejecting the DEA's internal "tribunal" process as unconstitutional - a process her deputies weaponized to silence applicants.
Milgram's so-called algorithm became a feedback loop of failure - one that rewarded insiders, punished innovators, and allowed criminal enterprises to thrive in plain sight.
Deputies Running Rampant
Inside the agency, Milgram's inner circle functioned like an unchecked network of bureaucratic enforcers:
Thomas Prevoznik, the self-styled "policy chief," oversaw licensing and diversion operations that defied congressional mandates and DOJ guidance.
Matthew Strait, his deputy, engineered new "bona fide supply agreement" rules retroactively -a legal move now under scrutiny for violating administrative law. Cont
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