Congressional hearings on crack profits event
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and other things to buy more drugs. The Lima conference had taken place only two weeks before Beck appeared in Washington, and the stories he heard were fresh in his mind when he sat before the committee. Once Beck testified, he was in thei…
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but the congressmen weren't interested in discussing educational campaigns or public service announcements. That wouldn't get any cocaine off the streets. What they wanted to know was this. What about the DEA's plan to ask Peruvian and Boli…
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They never came back to any of it. When the hearings resumed, the congressmen peppered the witnesses with such questions as whether they thought Hollywood cocaine use was just contributing to the deterioration of the quality of TV shows. If…
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Those are the kind of questions that the congressmen were interested in. Not another word was said about doing research or warning the public about the dangers. Beck left the hearing stunned. Nobody paid any attention. They listened to it a…
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Why not? Once you get into the morass of government, you never understand exactly what it's doing. Eight months before he appeared before the task force, Beck had requested official government permission to bring a CocoPaste sample into the…
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Congressional hearings had unearthed the links between crack profits and the proliferation of assault weapons in inner cities. Government studies had been done showing that L.A. had indisputably become the main source of the crack contagion…