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US President Donald Trump has designated the synthetic drug fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, putting the drug on par with nuclear bombs and weaponized biological agents, and further propelling the war on drugs to the forefront of his national security agenda… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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The world has been watching for weeks to see if the United States will escalate its militarized anti-drug mission in the Caribbean into a direct intervention aimed at toppling the regime of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, prompting intense debate about the wisdom and potential impacts of such an action… Read this piece in its entirety
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The United States has significantly escalated its policy of treating organized crime groups as terrorists with a lethal missile strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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Federal prosecutors asked a D.C. court on Monday to hand down a sentence of up to nine years in prison to the self-described political “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, who was convicted last year of lying to Congress, obstructing a congressional investigation and witness tampering… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Justice told a D.C. federal court Wednesday that probation could be an “appropriate” sentence for Michael Flynn, just a few weeks after the agency appeared to urge the court to hand the former White House adviser a harsher punishment… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 