fast and furious scandal is also a failure sought to tear down an arms trafficking operation. the smugglers, transporters and buyers. but in the end all prosecutors got was one middleman and a handful of straw buyers. a straw buyer is usually a kid who s 18 to, i ll say 25, maybe up to 30 years old who needs a couple hundred extra bucks and knows somebody that knows somebody that has a way to make a couple extra bucks. reporter: well, the bottom line is these straws are the bottom rung in the cartel ladder, jenna, and prosecutors tell me in all likelihood they will get probation, a sad situation considering all the victims killed or injured by the guns they sold. back to you. jenna: and so are the questions by certain members of congress about this plan. william, thank you so much for your continued reporting on this. we will be talking to one of the key players in the investigation into the fast and furious scandal, that s senator chuck
and the rest, went free. almost immediately, awaiting trial. it is pretty scary. you think that there are a lot of people that probably are not going to get out, they will be detained because of the risk. reporter: former u.s. attorney mel mcdonald said the defendants release suggest the fast and furious scandal is also a failure. the operation sought to tear down an armed trafficking network from top to bottom and, the end user in mexico, said the money man, the strugglers and transporters and buyers, in the end, all prosecutors got was one middleman and a handful of straw buyers. a straw buyer is usually a kid who is 18 to i ll say, 25, maybe up to 30 years old. and, he needs a couple hundred extra bucks and knows somebody that knows somebody who has a way of making a couple extra bucks. reporter: we found basically the 18 to 22, 24-year-olds still living with their parents, usually, in kind of a run down part of town, and bottom line, this was a very big case an
attorney mel mcdonald said the defendants release suggest the fast and furious scandal is also a failure. the operation sought to tear down an armed trafficking network from top to bottom and, the end user in mexico, said the money man, the strugglers and transporters and buyers, in the end, all prosecutors got was one middleman and a handful of straw buyers. a straw buyer is usually a kid who is 18 to i ll say, 25, maybe up to 30 years old. and, he needs a couple hundred extra bucks and knows somebody that knows somebody who has a way of making a couple extra bucks. reporter: we found basically the 18 to 22, 24-year-olds still living with their parents, usually, in kind of a run down part of town, and bottom line, this was a very big case an expensive for taxpayers and all but one guy was let out, within 24 hours and the next congressional hearing on this is tuesday and the focus is on mexico. back to you. heather: unbelievable. thank you very much. william lajeunesse, raeporting
got was one middleman and a handful of straw buyers. a straw buyer is usually a kid who s 18 to, i ll say 25, maybe up to 30 years old who needs a couple hundred extra bucks and knows somebody that knows somebody that has a way to make a couple extra bucks. reporter: well, the bottom line is these straws are the bottom rung in the cartel ladder, jenna, and prosecutors tell me in all likelihood they will get probation, a sad situation considering all the victims killed or injured by the guns they sold. back to you. jenna: and so are the questions by certain members of congress about this plan. william, thank you so much for your continued reporting on this. we will be talking to one of the key players in the investigation into the fast and furious scandal, that s senator chuck grassley. he s going to join us in just a few minutes. we ll talk more about his frustrations with the justice department, about finding more information about what exactly happened here. jon: and a related st
insurance. the shop has insurance. it s the insurance carrier for the gun shop that is on the hook. it s case of negligence. that s not the case here. this is not an allegation of the gun malfunction. this is that it was sold to bad guy and they should have known it was going to end up in the hands of someone that would have known it would harm the police. this is when the gun sale was taking place in this particular incident. do they have a case? they have a case. the buyer was a straw buyer meaning a front person. the person was buying the gun had a criminal record and the fbi background check would have rejected him. he got a buddy to go in and buy it for him.