i found myself in a hallway one-on-one with chris. and i m thinking, don t screw this up. one minute or two minutes of interaction with a main target, you don t know if you re going to get it again. so i told him, i didn t know i can t say, you know, i drink. he s like, yeah, you can t say that, man. he gave me directions to executive, dianna s clinic. took out his wallet, gave me my money back, and he said, look, go to this clinic. he made a phone call to dianna. said, hey, i m sending this guy up to you. i m like, man, i m real sorry. are they going to give me a hard time up there?
Partners. and what we each had was the responsibility to open up one office at first. my clinic, south florida pain. and his office, east coast pain. and we split the profits. we walked down to the tax collector s office, gave him $36, and he basically gave us this license to deal drugs. no questions asked. i had no idea. i thought it was going to be like a regular doctor s office. elevator music playing and a couple people sitting out there, not a line all the way down the street. the very first day, i was like, [bleep] man, we re not even open yet, and there s people waiting, scratching their neck, drinking mountain dews and smoking cigarettes. it kind of reminded me a bit of a trap house, you know? after being open for about three weeks, we got a phone call from dr. overstreet s wife. she said he d been in a car wreck and flipped his jeep over a cliff and died.
Chart right off the bat. chris s pain clinics were much more prolific than jeff george s pain clinics were. so chris was definitely at the top of the chart. you would love to get an undercover and working in the clinic. but we couldn t do that in this case. because if you didn t know chris or jeff, you did not get hired. we started figuring out, well, what can we do to get an undercover in there? i was sitting at my desk. i was wearing an affliction shirt. affliction was like the big thing back then. and i heard, who are you? and i said, well, i m the new guy. and she goes, i need an undercover. the second you meet jen, you know she means business. she told me what was going on. and then it s like, you just want me to go basically to a doctor s appointment? and she said, it was not like any other doctor s office you ve
I mean, it just seemed too good to be true to me. we started to work with informants, some of the patients. they told us about what s going on inside the clinic. i used to work fraud cases. committing fraud is just a matter of understanding the system and taking advantage of its weakness to commit a crime. and that s exactly what these guys did. we had to prove that the mri, the patient files and examinations were window dressing that allowed them to deal drugs legally. all florida pills right there. there s another one there, south florida pain. roxicodone, xanax. when i first seen the first
But they sure as hell poured gasoline on the fire. they became the largest street-level distribution group operating in the entire united states. nobody put more pills on the streets than they did. nobody. they created a blueprint for how this is to be done. and they were operating in broad daylight. the scale of this enterprise, i mean, it was enormous. you had addicts streaming in from all over the country, thousands of miles just to come to florida to get drugs. when you see what s going on inside that clinic, your jaw just falls to the floor. i got your pills in the parking lot. chill out, man. i ve been on the job as a special agent for over 20 years. and i ve seen a lot of crazy. but this was just [bleep] crazy. you couldn t make up the stuff that happened in this