Prescription drugs from illegal Online Pharmacies. A former under cover special agent for the dea joins me now. Robert mazer, is the author of, the infiltrator, a memoir about his life undercover with drug lord Pablo Escobars colombian cartel. We can not show his face for his own protection but he is joining us now from florida. Robert, welcome to the show. Great to have you here. Explain to our viewers a little bit about your career as under cover agent. Sure. I was a federal agent for 2 years. For the greatest portion of that i worked on attacking and identifying commandandcontrol of the colombian cartels and their money launderers. For the all but five years i did that in traditional sense. With search warrants and informants and those types of resources. But, for five years i volunteered to become a longterm under cover agent and to infiltrate the Money Laundering systems of the cartel. So i got the opportunity to do that. And to see how the cartels run firsthand basis. I wound up laundering for purpose of getting evidence needed to indict hundreds of individuals, i functioned as a money launderer for the cartel. Gerri were showing pictures now of lots and lots and lots of cocaine seized by you as you were doing this undercover job. So you know a thing or two about how all of this works. Tell us about the governments charges against fedex. Basically theyre saying that the company conspired to deliver Prescription Drugs for illegal internet pharmacies. How so . Well, they allege that, basically, driven by profit, fedex made decisions to provide Courier Service to some companies they specifically knew were run by individuals who had been indicted. And that were companies that were created to take over the business. That was done by those that were shut down it also claims that it set up a Payment System for, internet Prescription Drug suppliers in a different manner than for any other type of customers to protect themselves they knew full well there was very good possibility that some of these Prescription Drug providers, internet providers, were going to be indicted and shut down. In the past when that had happened they lost a substantial amount of revenue that was due because it was given, services were given out based on credit. Gerri so is this government charge credible to you . You were deep inside the illegal drug industry. Did you see anything happening between fedex and these narcotics drug lords . I liken this to the relationship between International Banks and drug cartels. When i dealt with Senior Management within International Banks they knew that i was representative for the medellin cartel. But they cite ad paper trail and plausible deniability so they could take on the highrisk accounts. An indictment is just an allegation. So this still need to be established in a court of law but the allegation is that similar to the way banks operated in the past where they have taken on highrisk accounts, intentionally knowing they were moving dirty money, in this instance the allegation is that these, that these Courier Service, fedex knew full well they were moving illicit diverted Prescription Drugs. Gerri i can tell you, if youre a regular american trying to find that drugs that dont cost an arm and a leg, seeing fedex might make you think this is legitimate website. Tell us how consumers looking options for buying drugs and want to buy them inexpensively can make sure theyre not buying them from an illegal site . With respect to whether or not somebody is operating illegally, there should be a visit to the doctor. There should be various protocol done before prescription actually gets filled. These companies clearly werent doing that. You have to really look at the heart of this problem. The heart of this problem was created by pharmaceutical companies that created oxycontin and oxycodone drugs, admittedly after having, pled guilty to misleading the public and misleading government agencies, that these drugs were not addictive and that there were certain time release factors incorporated in the drugs, they sold and made billions of dollars high marketing these drugs. What happened . Those people dependent upon opiates,. Users, people who wanted to be abuse painkillers heroin users. They wound up getting these drugs. That is why we had so much of this type of prescription opiate available to the public. And, if you look at the case that was brought against Purdue Pharma in 2007, they admitted that they falsely marketed this that has created explosion much pain killing centers and doctors and that issue painkillers. That weve seen that and certainly very complicated topic, robert. As you go, very quickly tell us what are the risks of these Online Pharmacies to consumers, to real people out there who might want to take some of these drugs, to buy something cheaper. Should they do it . Well, if they have a legitimate prescription and theyre dealing with a company that is verifying that, then that is not an issue. The issue really boils down to whether or not the internet prescription provider is going through the appropriate protocols. So, as long as the consumer has gone to a doctor, this is legitimate prescription, getting them filled in different areas is perfectly legal. Only when those people want these drugs who dont have the right type of prescription seek them that the problem is created gerri consumers can get hurt bying them online from pharmacies telling drugs that are tainted, not what theyre cracked up to be, there are lots of dangers on both side. This is complicated topic. I hope you come back to talk to us more about it. Thank you. Thank you. Gerri wow, interesting stuff, right . Well, another consumer story today you will want to hear about. Amazon launching an all you can read Ebook Subscription Service called, kindle unlimited. For just 9. 99 a month you can read and listen to any book you want practically but is it too good to be true . Here with all you need to know about the service, mashable tech editor. Pete, welcome back to the show. I overstated it. It is not every book in the world, right . Not every book in the world. Not even every book on amazons kindles store. It is about 600,000 books. That is a lot but still not the same three million or so i believe that the kindle store has. It is in the millions. Gerri so only a fraction of what the kindle store has. Here is my real question because i think we all sort of compete to the get red hot book out right now that might be turned into a movie of the week or show up on television, will they have the red hot books . Not all of them. Some of them. You need all publishers to participate if you will have those books and so far several of them are not playing. Harper collins, Simon Schuster they will be in. Gerri those are two big houses. Two big houses. Others are not commenting with a cursory look at titles available, only certain select things are available. Having that said, there are popular books available. Harry potter series. Lord of the rings trilogy. Not like these are knowname books but not be might want. Gerri only a fraction of what the kindle store has. What about newspapers and magazines . Not part of this. They are handled separately. They are available on kindle just for separate prescription fees. Gerri i love this idea. More books the better. Lets all get reading this summer and find extra time to read a good book. How successful will this be . Do you think competitors will follow hard on against them . Its a really good question because basically applying, the netflix model to books. Does it really translate . With netflix you have people already watching tv and movies in their homes and youre kind of, the habit is already there. So that kind of works. With kindle, reading books, people like on average, only spend a few minutes a day actually reading books. I mean certainly there are book manies worms and people who put their read several a month. This will be worth it for them. There is no way to cultivate a habit people arent doing. Hard to see if this will be successful. There are not many other people within the space. It is very hard to get the publisher participation. You have Service Called oyster and scrubbed are both in. They have roughly equivalent number. 400,000 or 500,000 books. Well see. Amazon is big player. If anyone can change things its them. Gerri quick question before you go. Will this put a fire under that big dispute this company has with americas publishers . Because they are constantly fighting with them. Im glad you used word fire, that is actually the name of their, some of their products. Is it going to affect it . I would think so. I think, it is not necessarily going to be antagonizing them because they will be keeping a close eye on this to see how popular it is. One more point i want to make. If you already have a kindle and amazon prime member, you dont really need this. Amazon already has the Amazon Kindle owners lender library. Gerri thats right. It is virtually the same content. About 500,000 books. It is not audio books. Audio books are involved in kindle unlimited, about 2,000. If you already have a kindle and prime you dont need this, just so you know. Gerri interesting details. Pete, thanks for coming on. Have a great weekend. Certainly, my pleasure. Gerri a lot more to come this hour including your voice. Your serves voice is important to us. During the show facebook me or tweet me gerriwillisfbn. I will read your comments. What changes can flyers expect after the shootdown of the malaysian airliner . Did this happen because the airline was flying over a war wondering what that is . That, my friends, is everything. And with the quicksilver card from capital one, you earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back on everything you purchase. Not just everything at the hardware store. Not everything, until you hit your cash back limit. Quicksilver can earn you unlimited 1. 5 cash back on everything you could possibly imagine. Say it with me everything. One more time, everything and with that in mind. Whats in your wallet . 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Gerri the tragedy of the Malaysian Airlines crash gives nervous flyers even more reason to be worried tonight. Earlier today president obama condemned the apparent missile strike that brought down the civilian jetliner. Yesterday Malaysian Airlines flight mh17 took off from amsterdam and was shot down over ukraine near the russian border. Nearly 300 innocent lives were taken. Men, women, children, infants, who had nothing to do with the crisis in ukraine. Their deaths are a outrage of unspeakable proportions. How do we know . How do we know if the plane were boarding will fly over a war zone and does that put us at risk . Joining me tonight, mark murphy, a travel expert. Thanks for coming on. Yay. Gerri that is the question. How do i know what flight path my pilot chosen . In many flights youre flying over war zones like afghanistan and other hot spots and syria, place in the middle east. You are doing that but the idea is that faa looks at routes and what is going on the ground and send out notice to airmen if you have to change altitudes and change direction. That is something you know in advance. The what happened this is russianmade missile that can go 75,000 feet in the air, even though they said fly above 35,000 feet which was the notice, it made no difference if Russia Targets a commercial early jetliner. Gerri was that the notice. That was notice from a few days ago. Gerri even if the government was saying would not kept me safe. Absolutely not because of the equipment they used the Missile System. Gerri the pilot has a lost discretion here, right . Not really. That flight plan is put in place. Gerri generally . No. The air Traffic Controllers will pick you up. In fact they were scheduled to fly at 35,000 feet and Ukrainian AirTraffic Controllers brought them down to 33,000. Not that made adid i recognize but they make adjustments country to country. Air Traffic Controllers are handing the plane off as it travels to new space. Theyre literally followed along all the flight path. Gerri thats interesting. There was something the faa issued, they called it a notice to airmen . Does that make sense to you . Yay. They let you know if theres a hot spot or something you need to be concerned about. That goes out and that is what a notam was. Gerri this is not american plane. Do they not get notices . They do not. They dont get the notices. They certainly can monitor that stuff. This was under euro control and this was an approved routings by european traffic control. That is the challenge. Gerri nobody thought a missile would fly that far into the air, right . They knew that Missile System was there, the question when you target with that Missile System, youre targeting five minutes beforehand, tracking it and being able to shoot it up to 12 miles. They saw the plane. We dont know what was going on in their heads. Did they think it was ukrainian jet . If so, if so, did they just choose the wrong target. That is really terrible. Gerri apparently the technology with the Weapon System is so complicated that it will choose a target for you. And it will go after larger target and make up its own mind. The devil in the details here, did these people firing this quit, did they have much if any train in shooting weapons . Who knows. That is for the politics of what is happening there. Who are these people fighting on the ground . Are they actually russians . Is this terrorist incident . In my opinion no. Gerri mark, it is interesting. I know a lot of flyers are nervous and industry probably a little worried scratching their chins too because this impacts industry and its profits. Here is what i would say. This is such a crazy incident i feel so bad for malaysia airlines. Gerri and families. Just terrible, terrible for all involved but you have to look at this and say, what is the lakely hood . 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