America's Vital Signs ....... how does that relate to you~

Rannazzisi wasn’t the only one experiencing obstacles at DEA. In cases that former DEA attorney Jonathan Novak described as crystal clear in terms of wrongdoing, he was told more experts and more evidence was needed. Novak saw his caseload slow down.  In the biggest case, the DEA ever built against a drug distributor, the McKesson Corporation, the company was deemed “too big to prosecute.” The DEA team hit a brick wall in Washington when they tried to hold McKesson accountable. “There is not a man or woman in DEA today that’s happy with the settlement and morale has been broken because of it,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Schiller. “McKesson was at the forefront” of fueling the epidemic.

The prosecution was further stalled by a law passed by Congress in 2016 that stripped the DEA of its most potent enforcement tools against big pharmaceutical distributors. The law was written by a former DEA insider Linden Barber, who previously ran the DEA’s legal department and went on to work as a lawyer-lobbyist for the drug industry, as the industry spent approximately $100 million lobbying Congress. Too big to fail is a company that's so essential to the global economy that its failure would be catastrophic. Big doesn't refer to the size of the company. Instead, it means it's so interconnected with the global economy that its failure would be a big event.  The Bush administration popularized this phrase during the 2008 financial crisis. It describes why it must bail out some companies to avoid economic collapse. These included financial firms that had relied on derivatives to gain a competitive advantage when the economy was booming. When the housing market collapsed, their investments threatened to bankrupt them. That's when they became 2 big