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...Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) filed charges last week against Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon, who was an instructor of neurology at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Woman's Hospital from 1984 to 1986. The DEA's civil action suit, which seeks $5 million in damages, follows criminal charges filed earlier against Ungar-Sargon by the state of Massachusetts...
Jack Crowley, a spokesman for the DEA, told the Quincy-Patriot Ledger yesterday that "the U.S. attorney felt what went on here was so outrageous that the additional suit should be brought...
...pressure the U.S. is exerting on Mexico to crack down on drug trafficking may finally be paying off. Last week the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mexican Federal Judicial Police confirmed the arrest of the drug lord and his son Jaime Herrera Herrera. After DEA agents helped locate the Herreras last month, federales raided their houses in Guadalajara and Torreon. Said Antonio Gonzalez of the Mexican embassy in Washington: "These arrests show that our effort is going firmly and showing results...
Noriega is currently being investigated by the Justice Department and three federal agencies. In Tampa, Customs and FBI agents are probing allegations that Noriega was paid off to facilitate the smuggling of drugs into the U.S. In Miami, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking into similar accusations. In addition, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, a Cuban-American convicted in 1985 of drug-related charges, has testified in closed hearings to a congressional committee that Noriega pocketed millions of dollars in commissions on drug profits that passed through Panama's central bank...
...cite his willingness this year to have Panama's bank-secrecy laws amended to allow U.S. investigators limited access to drug-money accounts. In an effort to scuttle a resolution critical of Panama's drug enforcement policies last March, Trott told a Senate committee, "The Panamanians have given ((the DEA)) 100% of its requests in terms of drug traffickers." An unlikely coalition led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms and Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry was nevertheless able to push the resolution through. In the House, New York Democrat James Scheuer has blasted the Justice Department's praise for Panama...