Maria Chapa Lopez, who has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Tampa-based Middle District of Florida since 2018, announced her resignation late Friday, along with other top federal prosecutors nationwide.
Maria Chapa Lopez resigns as U.S. Attorney for Tampa
The move comes after the Biden administration asked that Trump-appointed federal prosecutors leave office.
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TAMPA â Maria Chapa Lopez, who has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Tampa-based Middle District of Florida since 2018, announced her resignation late Friday, along with other top federal prosecutors nationwide.
The move comes weeks after Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson asked all 56 U.S. Attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump to resign. In recent years it has become common for U.S. Attorneys appointed by Republican or Democratic chief executives to resign when a president of the other party takes office.
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Dec 23, 2020 11:32 AM EST
The Walmart pharmacies seemed to have violated the law by filling thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances that Walmart s pharmacists knew were invalid.
On Tuesday, the US Justice Department sued Walmart, a giant retailer operating in more than 5,000 pharmacies nationwide, due to an alleged role in fueling the country s opioid crisis by incompetently screening thousands of doubtful prescriptions and disregarding frequent notices from its pharmacists.
According to the federal complaint, the suit alleges, Walmart knowingly violated well-established rules requiring it to scrutinize controlled-substance prescriptions to ensure that they were valid and mandated pharmacists to process a high volume of prescriptions as fast as possible.
DOJ Sues Walmart for Filling Invalid Prescriptions That Fueled Opioid Crisis
WASHINGTON The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the retail giant unlawfully dispensed controlled substances that fueled the opioid crisis.
A civil complaint filed on Dec. 22 alleges Walmart pharmacists knowingly filled thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances that they knew were invalid.
The complaint also alleges that Walmart received hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders that it failed to report as required by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
“The complaint lists Florida pill mill doctors who wrote improper prescriptions for thousands of individuals,” Maria Chapa Lopez, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, told reporters on a conference call.