We begin with gift cards. Its an easy gift to buy at major retailers and to give during the holidays, too, but the plastic currency is being used as part of a massive fraud being fueled by the Opioid Epidemic. In an on the money investigation Contessa Brewer found Stores Across the country are beg targeted easy summon inside some of the countrys biggest retailers theres a shadowy world of commerce, crime and drugs, and at the center gift cards. Are gift cards currency you can use to pay for drugs . Yes. Reporter by all appearances, these four women could be tidying up what looks like a college dorm room, but this is no university. Its rehab. That worthlessness, i mean, that guilt and shame that i feel every day. That i chose drugs over my son, every day. These women arent students, they are crippling addiction. Ive ghef in italy stolen. Repor they sat down with us at a drug Treatment Facility in jacksonville, florida. 23yearold kristen booths drug of choice, oxycodone and heroin and sh
During the holidays, too, but the plastic currency is being used as part of a massive fraud being fueled by the Opioid Epidemic. In an on the money investigation Contessa Brewer found Stores Across the country are beg targeted easy summon inside some of the countrys biggest retailers theres a shadowy world of commerce, crime and drugs, and at the center gift cards. Are gift cards currency you can use to pay for drugs . Yes. Reporter by all appearances, these four women could be tidying up what looks like a college dorm room, but this is no university. Its rehab. That worthlessness, i mean, that guilt and shame that i feel every day. That i chose drugs over my son, every day. These women arent students, they are patients, struggling with crippling addiction. Ive ghef in italy stolen. Repor they sat down with us at a drug Treatment Facility in jacksonville, florida. 23yearold kristen booths drug of choice, oxycodone and heroin and shes been arrested twice for gift card fraud. I would tak
Relations under the Trump Administration, and economic prospects for the future. Panelists also speculate whether President Trump will change the Obama Administration cuban normalization policies. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you all for being here. A special thanks to our audience in the cspan world for joining us. This event is being recorded by cspan. Thank you for being here and for the audience for joining us. My name is frank moore. I am the director of the kimberly green Caribbean Center here at Florida University. Our friends at cspan, we are here located at the biscayne bay campus of Florida University here in miami. We have another campus where the center is located in west dade. The center that i direct is one of the institutes and programs or centers at the Steven J Green school of International Affairs and university. We are absolutely delighted to be hosting or cohosting this event. I want to thank the dean of the Chaplain School of hospitality and tourism management, m
Thank you for being here with a special thanks to the audience in the cspan world for joining us this even if is recorded by cspan thanks to the team to be here and joining us. I am the director of the Caribbean Center we are located at Florida International university here in miami and we have another campus where the center is located. The center that i direct is one of the institutes or programs of centers that the school of Public International affairs we are absolutely delighted to be hosting or coasting these events a thanks to the Chaplains School thanks for supporting this it is degraded to have on your campus. Also to the Cuban Research institute a little bit of why we are here last year the Brookings Institution specific and Foreign Policy team from the Latin American Initiative reach out to me to see if we were interested in cosponsoring a steady a steady on one of the of more dynamic sectors of the cuban economy in the context of 2014 of the relationship since then. So ted