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I have placed an order on last Monday night with what I thought was a very reliable source (cancunrx). I sent the Western Unions to the receiver names that were provided and payed for 2nd day shipping. I still haven't not received my medications and I Have been trying to contact this source for several days now by various emails and through his website and I have not got a single reply. I checked the status of the western unions and It says that the funds are available for pickup. How much longer should I wait to here back from them??? Should I go try and re collect my money??
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Do you drs with an on-site pharmacy are more free with the prescriptions? I have never seen a dr office with their own pharmacy before. I have an appt next week, so we'll see how it goes!
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Anyone have a preference? I have used WU. I think MG is a bit cheaper, but I dont want any problems, so want to go with easiest for me the sender and the receiver.
Thanks!
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I used this service one time and everything was ok. But I heard that is not safe. Any opinion ?
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By Curt Anderson
The Associated Press
updated 5:29 p.m. ET, Wed., March. 17, 2010
MIAMI - Banking giant Wachovia Corp. will pay $160 million to settle a federal investigation into laundering of illegal drug profits through Mexican exchange houses in the largest case of its kind ever brought against a U.S. bank, prosecutors said Wednesday.
"This is historic," acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sloman said. "There is no other case like this one anywhere."
The probe, which began in 2005 when a Drug Enforcement Administration narcotics dog in Florida detected cocaine traces in an airplane, ultimately uncovered at least $110 million in drug profits laundered from Mexico through Wachovia. The total settlement includes forfeiture in that amount plus a $50 million fine.
"DEA will follow drug money wherever it leads us," said Mark R. Trouville, chief of the DEA's Miami office.
The agreement means Wachovia and its executives will avoid criminal prosecution in return for the $160 million payment and significant improvements in its anti-money laundering program. If those and other conditions are met within one year, potential criminal charges for failure to maintain a system to detect money launderers will be dropped.
Wachovia, now a unit of San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co., said in a statement that Wells Fargo had already set aside money to pay the settlement. The statement said Wachovia, based in Charlotte, ended its relationships with foreign currency exchange houses in 2008.
"Wachovia Bank has fully cooperated with the federal government throughout the course of its investigation," the statement said.
The $160 million fine and forfeiture represents the biggest penalty ever imposed under the Bank Secrecy Act, which requires financial institutions to keep close tabs on suspicious transactions that could indicate money is being laundered from criminal enterprises. According to prosecutors, Wachovia's program was woefully inadequate and bank executives knew it, meaning that numerous red flags were missed over a three-year period.
In fact, officials said Wachovia had no way of checking some $420 billion in transactions from Mexican exchange houses for possible money-laundering activity. That means investigators didn't get potentially key information on drug cartels, terrorist financing networks and other organized crime enterprises.
"The integrity of our financial system is at stake," said Charles Steele, deputy director of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. "It poses a very serious problem, a very serious threat for law enforcement."
Beginning with that DEA drug-sniffing dog in June 2005, investigators began tracing the source of money for airplanes being used to ferry cocaine in Colombia and Mexico that was ultimately destined for the U.S. Those initial money transfers were overseen by a Wachovia office in Miami.
Ultimately at least $13 million from the Mexican exchanges went through Wachovia for the purchase of aircraft, according to court documents. Four of them were seized by investigators, along with more than 22 tons of cocaine.
From there, investigators from the DEA, Internal Revenue Service and other agencies tracked billions of dollars in wire transfers, bulk cash shipments and other transactions from the Mexican exchanges through Wachovia. Many were considered suspicious, including such tactics as multiple round-number wire transfers on the same day for a single account; deposits of traveler's checks with sequential numbers that contain unusual markings; and bulk cash transfers up to 50 percent larger than a customer had led Wachovia to expect.
Under the agreement, Wells Fargo cannot use taxpayer money provided under the federal financial bailout program — known as TARP — to pay its fine and forfeiture amounts. A Wachovia spokewoman said Wells Fargo fully repaid its TARP money to the government in late 2009, before the money-laundering settlement was finalized.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35914759/ns/business-world_business/
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Hey guys. I just became legal and I have been under constant stress since I was 11. We are immigrants and my parents did not begin to hold steady jobs have medical insurance 2 years ago.
I have never been to the doctor for anything, except starting this year we decided to take advantage of the dental and vision stuff.
I have some anxiety and stress problem related to family problem and some unhealthy thoughts. I love to read and learn about things, but it seems like these days things are getting worse that I couldn't even try to sit down and read a book that I really want to. I only have two classes right now and I spend a lot of time on my own at home.
I think I might always have some kind of ADHD problem, it was just that they weren't so expressed when I was younger and able to focus more. I dont know if this is something due to stress or innate, but it's bothering me quite a bit. My mind tend to wander every 15 seconds, and I couldnt read a paragraph without drifting off. I have always been like this except I can come back pretty quickly with my distracting thoughts. My grades are great though, on the top percent of the class. I heard ADHD interfere with school performance, but I guess I can struggle enough to do well.
I might try to get some counseling from a local behavioral group. I don't know if they can prescribe anything. I hope I dont need any pills, but it seems like that's probably all that help right now, since I have tried all the non-medical things imaginable.
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The Associated Press
updated 5:33 p.m. ET, Wed., March. 17, 2010
WASHINGTON - The $75 million heist at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Connecticut this week was just the most audacious example of a growing phenomenon: Thieves are stealing large quantities of prescription drugs for resale on the black market.
Pharmaceutical heists in the U.S. have quadrupled since 2006, a coalition of industry and law enforcement estimates. And experts say the reasons include spotty security and high drug prices that can make such thefts extremely lucrative.
While some stolen pills wind up overseas, others show up on pharmacy shelves in the U.S. with fake labels and lot numbers.
The theft from an Eli Lilly & Co. warehouse early Sunday is the largest of its kind on record and attests to the growing sophistication of those who pull off such crimes.
Authorities say the thieves cut a hole in the roof, lowered themselves into the building on ropes, disabled the alarm system and stole enough drugs to fill a tractor-trailer. The stolen pharmaceuticals included best-selling antidepressants Prozac and Cymbalta.
"The people that target the pharmaceutical industry are an organized criminal element," said Charles Forsaith, director of supply chain security for drugmaker Purdue Pharma. "This isn't a couple of guys walking by a warehouse and saying, 'I'm going to hit that place.'"
Forsaith heads a coalition of drug companies, distributors and law enforcement officials who have been working to prevent such thefts since 2006.
'Flood the market'
In the past four years, reported thefts of prescription drug shipments have quadrupled from 11 to 46, according to FreightWatch International, a security firm. Last year, roughly $184 million in pharmaceuticals were stolen in the U.S., up from $96.6 million the year before. Most of the heists involve cargo stolen from trucks or cargo containers, though company warehouses have also been hit.
Widely abused drugs like morphine and codeine are often peddled on the street, but federal officials say drugs like those stolen from Lilly are often sold back to medical suppliers.
Major drugstore chains say they purchase pharmaceuticals only from manufacturers or wholesalers that certify the source of their product.
But with layers of drug wholesalers, distributors and online pharmacy businesses across the U.S., experts say stolen prescription drugs can easily be resold.
"Some of these thieves completely redo labels, and they pass muster if no one's looking too closely," said Food and Drug Administration spokesman Tom Gasparoli.
The danger to the public comes if the thieves decide to hold onto the product until it expires and becomes unsafe.
"If they flood the market with this stuff now they're going to get caught. If they hold on to them too long, you're going to have shelf-life issues," said Steve Brozak, president of WBB Securities, an investment firm focused on the drug industry.
'Fragmented supply chain'
A year ago, a refrigerated truck of insulin worth more than $10.9 million was stolen from Novo Nordisk in North Carolina. Months later the FDA reported several cases of diabetics showing up in emergency rooms with unsafe blood sugar levels; the cases were traced to the stolen insulin, which was not properly refrigerated.
Security experts say the incentives behind pharmaceutical theft are largely confined to the U.S. and unlikely to change anytime soon.
"Whenever you have a health care system where drugs are very expensive and there's a fragmented supply chain, you're going to have a means to profit from stolen drugs," said Ron Greene, a spokesman for FreightWatch.
According to Greene, pharmaceutical theft is virtually nonexistent in Europe, where government controls keep drug prices low and most people have health care coverage.
Drugmakers are taking steps to protect their products. FreightWatch advises companies to hire security personnel to protect major shipments. In other cases they can install electronic tracking systems to monitor where their trucks are at all times.
The FDA has stepped up its own efforts, issuing alerts to the public, working with manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacies and law enforcement, and publishing lot numbers of stolen drugs on a Web site.
"FDA stresses that it is everyone's responsibility in the supply chain to look closely, to care about the quality of the products they sell," Gasparoli said. "If there is not a solid market for these stolen goods, the thieves will do something else."
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35917590/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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I post on several drug-related forums. While not explicitly about Rx drugs, the Microgram has often covered topics such as fake OC80s, fake GG249 Xanax bars and other Rx issues.
Starting with the January 2010 issue, Microgram Bulletin on Drug Enforcement Agency Redirect page will now contain Scheduling Updates, Safety Alerts, Selective References, Meeting Announcements, Employment Opportunities, The Journal/Textbook Collection Exchange, and Training Opportunities. Intelligence Alerts and Briefs will only be found in Microgram Bulletin LE
(Law Enforcement) edition. [color:"Magenta"](Ed. <-- This is the IMPORTANT PART)[/color] Microgram Bulletin LE will be posted on Law Enforcement Online (LEO), Law Enforcement Online (criteria for membership and applications for membership can be found at Law Enforcement Onlinemembership_criteria.pdf and Law Enforcement Online). LEO is a free, interactive, computer- communications service provided by the FBI. It provides an Internet accessible focal point for electronic Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) communication and information sharing for the international, federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. LEO also supports antiterrorism, intelligence, law enforcement, criminal justice, and public safety communities worldwide.
If you think you can help us gain access to the Microgram LE edition. Please PM me.
This is a report that began in the 60s and we've (the public) has only recently (2003) gained access to it.
Basically, we're needing someone with LEO.GOV access. An actual LEO godforbid, criminal justice researchers, those in the field of medicine, anyone who would have qualifications.
This article states the importance of what was just taken from us:
http://www.michaelerard.com/fulltext/2006/08/open_secrets_how_the_governmen.html
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Does anyone know of a place in Central Florida that will write for oxycodone 30's without a huge hassle? I haven't been to pain management since August but, still have pharmacy printoput from then. Thanks
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The weird part is I've sent to this receiver before and funds were picked up a few weeks back. Now, she can't get funds last week. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the new state status Baja California North? Any body else
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