It's all one big hu$tle, folks:
"DEA improperly paid $854,460 for passenger lists" Associated Press August 12, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak secretary $854,460 over nearly 20 years to obtain confidential information about train passengers, which the DEA could have lawfully obtained for free through a law enforcement network, investigators say.
The employee was not publicly identified except as a ‘‘secretary to a train and engine crew’’ in a report on the incident by Amtrak’s inspector general. The secretary was allowed to retire, rather than face administrative discipline, after the discovery that the employee had effectively been acting as an informant who ‘‘regularly’’ sold private passenger information since 1995 without Amtrak’s approval, according to a one-paragraph summary of the matter....
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