chart right off the bat. chris s pain clinics were much more prolific than jeff george s pain clinics were. so chris was definitely at the top of the chart. you would love to get an undercover and working in the clinic. but we couldn t do that in this case. because if you didn t know chris or jeff, you did not get hired. we started figuring out, well, what can we do to get an undercover in there? i was sitting at my desk. i was wearing an affliction shirt. affliction was like the big thing back then. and i heard, who are you? and i said, well, i m the new guy. and she goes, i need an undercover. the second you meet jen, you know she means business. she told me what was going on. and then it s like, you just want me to go basically to a doctor s appointment? and she said, it was not like any other doctor s office you ve
i do i need to be involved in this? i don t know. do we have any patients? yeah, we have patients here. we realized that we needed to put more standards in place, so we hired a consultant. i had a very interesting career, i think. i was the senior investigator in the miami office, a group supervisor and a program manager. i retired, my wife decided she wanted a divorce. she got half my pension, so i had to pick up some money somehow. and that s how i got involved with the pain clinics. i met one of them, one of the george brothers. now i don t remember which one it was. what was your impression of him? a businessman. he knew nothing about the drugs, but he had doctors for that purpose, and he hired me to keep him straight. so it became a little business for me. i would do like a mock dea-type inspection. i had a checklist. they have to have signs posted. they had to follow all the rules of pharmacy.
networks. chuck jarsinski couldn t believe prosecutors found $4. 5 million in his neighbor s home. they did? holy smokes. two brothers, their mother and one of the men s wives have all pleaded guilty to taking part in a massive illegal drug network. jeff george pleaded guilty today to a racketeering conspiracy charge in federal court. guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. guilty to second degree murder in connection with overdose deaths. pill mill mastermind jeff george will spend the next 15 years behind bars. i got an alert on my phone that said my bank account was $99 million in the negative. and i thought, what the hell is going on? i didn t think nothing of it. i go into mcdonald s and order a hot cakes and sausage. insufficient funds. second bank card declined. third bank card declined. i m like, what in the hell? i call my personal banker and she said, it s the u. s. marshals.
florida was the epicenter. and the biggest ones in the business were the george brothers at american pain. the george brothers did not start the opioid crisis. but they sure as hell poured gasoline on the fire. they became the largest street-level distribution group operating in the entire united states. nobody put more pills on the streets than they did. nobody. they created a blueprint for how this is to be done. and they were operating in broad daylight. the scale of this enterprise, i mean, it was enormous. you had addicts streaming in from all over the country, thousands of miles just to come to florida to get drugs. when you see what s going on inside that clinic, your jaw
what do you want me to do? i don t know, chris. baby, i m [bleep] i m [bleep] why are you [bleep] they re going to put me in jail for a long time, babe. a long [bleep] time. you just need to relax, chris, and you need to think of a [bleep] plan. i m just going to kill myself. don t do this. don t be stupid. but you need to think of something, and killing yourself is not the answer. you cannot leave me here by my [bleep] self to deal with your dirt. this was the cause of our epidemic in this country. florida was the epicenter. and the biggest ones in the business were the george brothers at american pain. the george brothers did not start the opioid crisis.