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Employees who raised concern for this is look like a cash-only pill mill, and those concerns were dismissed. anita vinita said that rite aid filled prescriptions with prescriptions with red flags, and internal notes for individual prescribers were erased. walgreens and rite aid did pay thousands of dollars in fines, but did not admit to any wrongdoing of overprescribing opioids and codonees.
To florida to get drugs. >> when you see what's going on inside that clinic, your jaw just fall ts to the floor. >> i've been on the job as a special agent for over 20 years. i've seen a lot of crazy. this was just [ bleep ] crazy. >> joining us now the retired fbi at kurt mckenzie. he led the investigation into the george brothers operation. mr. mckenzie, thanks for being here. the george brothers were running this pill mill, as it's called, this operation in the u.s. do we know their impact on the wider opoid crisis in the country? >> as i said -- thank you for having me first of all. as i s...
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Have filled the void since, but what the george brothers did was interesting is because they figured out the need, and what are the legal requirements? you need a doctor to write a prescription and you need a basis, an mri and you need the things to meet with the regulator and so they took the legal steps as a cover for a vast illegal enterprise. i was working fbi at the time this case was put together, and what they brought was a rico case which is a racketeering enterprise, and so they basically said that the chain of pill mills, $40 million they made, millions of pills they put out, and 66,...
Crazy. and joining me now is chief law enforcement analyst, and that is quite a trailer. but the george brothers had an influence on the opioid market, and how is that? >> the george brothers had an influence, but most of the customers were coming from out of state, and coming to out of state, and this is an all you can ask pill mill. >> and what did the cartel play in this play? >> well, the george brothers set up the pill mill and once they were shutdown, the cartel stepped in and said, what do people want? oxycodone, and we will make a counterfeit blue fill, and it is not oxy, but it is g...