Army officials are investigating a Fort Bragg officer s involvement at a rally that turned into a deadly riot in Washington D.C. last week.
Capt. Emily Rainey told the Associated Press she went to Washington D.C. on Wednesday as a private citizen while on leave, didn’t advertise that she was an Army officer and told her bosses ahead of time that she’d be going.
Rainey is a psychological operations officer assigned to the 4th Psychological Operations Group, said Maj. Dan. Lessard, a spokesman for the 1st Special Forces Command that the group falls under.
Lessard said commanders are aware of Rainey s presence at the Capitol last week.
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Walmart allegedly fueled the opioid epidemic by filling thousands of invalid prescriptions and failing to report suspicious orders to authorities, the Justice Department claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Managers across Walmart s 5,000 U.S pharmacies denied its pharmacists the authority to refuse to fill prescriptions from known pill mills and withheld related compliance data from their workers, federal regulators alleged in the complaint filed in federal court. While Walmart stopped distributing controlled substances in 2018, it had received hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders that it failed to report to the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the lawsuit, which is seeking what could be billions of dollars in damages and limitations on its prescribing privileges.
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The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Walmart on Tuesday, alleging that the retail giant unlawfully dispensed controlled substances from pharmacies it operated nationwide.
The government says that, between the actions of the company s pharmacies and its distribution centers, Walmart helped to fuel America s ongoing opioid crisis.
Damages in the civil case could total in the billions of dollars, the Justice Department said. As one of the largest pharmacy chains and wholesale drug distributors in the country, Walmart had the responsibility and the means to help prevent the diversion of prescription opioids, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, acting assistant attorney general of the Civil Division, said in a statement.
DOJ Accuses Walmart of Perpetuating the Opioid Crisis by Looking the Other Way
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In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the Department of Justice accused Walmart of being a reckless drug peddler who put profits over the nation’s health and said the retail giant was a key player in the opioid crisis that resulted in 50,000 overdoses in 2019 alone.
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