Attorney General Sessions Announces New Tool to Fight Online Drug Trafficking

I posted this once and think it is worth posting again.

Attorney General Sessions Announces New Tool to Fight Online Drug Trafficking

Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced a new resource to help federal law enforcement disrupt online illicit opioid sales, the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team.

"Criminals think that they are safe on the darknet, but they are in for a rude awakening," Attorney General Sessions said. "We have already infiltrated their networks, and we are determined to bring them to justice. In the midst of the deadliest drug crisis in American history, the FBI and the Department of Justice are stepping up our investment in fighting opioid-related crimes. The J-CODE team will help us continue to shut down the online marketplaces that drug traffickers use and ultimately that will help us reduce addiction and overdoses across the nation."

J-CODE will more than double the FBI's investment in fighting online opioid trafficking. The FBI is dedicating dozens more Special Agents, Intelligence Analysts, and professional staff to J-CODE so that they can focus on this one issue of online opioid trafficking.

In July 2017, Attorney General Sessions announced the seizure of the largest dark net marketplace in history. This site hosted some 220,000 drug listings and was responsible for countless synthetic opioid overdoses, including the tragic death of a 13 year old.

In August 2017, Attorney General Sessions ordered the creation of a new data analytics program, the Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, to focus specifically on investigating opioid-related health care fraud. The same day, he assigned a dozen prosecutors to "hot spot" districts--where opioid addiction is especially prevalent--to focus solely on investigating and prosecuting opioid-related health care fraud.

In November, Attorney General Sessions ordered all 94 U.S. Attorney offices to designate an opioid coordinator who will customize federal law enforcement's anti-opioid strategy in their district.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-announces-new-tool-fight-online-drug-trafficking


Comments


[11 Points] CocaineNose:

Seems like all they have to do these days is throw around "opioid crisis/epidemic". It's like the new 9/11.


[7 Points] bradleynowellsguitar:

Ok, close down online markets where users can safely order quality product, so they can go back to copping shit on the street that's cut with fentanyl...fuck jeff sessions.


[2 Points] boofme:

this mainly pertains to people who are importing exporting large quantities of fent they aren't gonna go after somebody buying a sheet of lsd no worries haha.


[1 Points] ClutchMoth8:

So will this target all darknet purchases, or specifically the opioid trade? J-CODE seems to be all about opioids,(hence the name) but will Sessions use this as an excuse to start raiding out major markets?


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] _PrinterPam_:

It seems to me that this 'tool' is nothing more than an increased number of agents, umbrella'd under an operation named 'J-CODE,' to investigate what's known in the pharmaceutical world as 'diversion' (meaning: technically legal orders of opioid products by pharmacies and such that are then illegally prescribed/sold). Doesn't sound like it has much to do with DNMs.


[0 Points] ggmccloud1_AB:

This sub would have you believe that fraudsters ruin markets, but yet their drug markets are targeted by LE far more often and with more intensity. Meanwhile fraud only markets are still standing. :)