U.S. Prosecutors Launch Review of Failed Fedex Drug Case
Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has begun a rare internal examination of what went wrong in the prosecution of a controversial drug conspiracy case against delivery service Federal Express, according to the department’s top prosecutor in San Francisco.
“The review plays into a broader debate about how the government prosecutes suspected corporate wrongdoing and could influence its approach to such cases in the future,” write Dan Levine and David Ingram.
FedEx was indicted in 2014 on charges the company had knowingly helped Internet pharmacies ship illegal pills. Then, four days into a trial in San Francisco last month, the DOJ dropped all charges, a decision the judge praised, saying it was clear FedEx was “factually innocent.”
The new review will examine why prosecutors brought the case, what oversight supervisors provided and what role officials in Washington D.C. played.
