Fed Ex Facing Drug Trafficking Charges For Illegally Transporting Prescription Drugs

Postal giant Fed Ex is in some scolding hot water after it was discovered that the company has allegedly been transporting prescription for illegal internet pharmacies.

via USA Today

FedEx is facing drug-trafficking charges after a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted the overnight shipping company, accusing it of conspiring to deliver prescription drugs for illegal Internet pharmacies.

The indictment says FedEx knew for a decade that such pharmacies used their services. FedEx took steps to protect its business by setting up special credit policies for Internet pharmacies so it wouldn’t lose money if police shut the sites down, the indictment says.

FedEx ignored nearly a decade of warnings from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration and members of Congress, the indictment says.

“FedEx knew that it was delivering drugs to dealers and addicts,” the Justice Department said in a press release. Federal prosecutors have summoned FedEx to federal court in San Francisco for a hearing July 29. No FedEx officers were charged.

FedEx is innocent of the charges, said Patrick Fitzgerald, senior vice president for marketing and communications, in a written statement. Fitzgerald said FedEx has cooperated for decades with law enforcement agencies to stop illegal drug activity.

“We have repeatedly requested that the government provide us a list of online pharmacies engaging in illegal activity,” he said. “Whenever DEA provides us a list of pharmacies engaging in illegal activity, we will turn off shipping for those companies immediately. So far the government has declined to provide such a list.”

Fitzgerald said it is unreasonable to expect FedEx to take responsibility for the legality of the contents of the 10 million packages it delivers each day.

“We are a transportation company — we are not law enforcement,” he said.

FedEx’s couriers in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia told senior FedEx managers that they worried for their safety. Delivery addresses for the pills included parking lots, schools and vacant homes where carloads of people would await the parcels, the indictment said.

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