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January 29, 2011
Your tax dollars at work: Federal agencies help fugitive drug smuggler return to USA, set him up in a motel, give him cash, etc while Federal Marshals are trying to hunt him down and arrest him.
In the Army, we used to call this sort of thing a "cluster fork".
...When Phillips arrived last year, DCF moved him into a Rodeway Inn on Southwest 14th Street near Jackson Memorial Hospital, Castaneda said Thursday, paying for the room with money passed from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Florida DCF through the U.S. branch of the International Social Service...
...Completely unaware of any of this, federal marshals were looking for Phillips on the arrest warrant for failing to appear in court in 1979. The day he skipped town, Phillips was accused of conspiring with a trail-blazing drug smuggling operation to flood South Florida with tons of marijuana and cocaine...
...Phillips fled Miami in 1979 to avoid prosecution on federal racketeering, drug possession and other crimes. He was convicted in absentia in 1980, and, so far as the federal government is concerned has been a fugitive ever since...
Well, at least the Federal Govt didn't procure any hookers and blow for him and set him up with a new BMW, that's a plus, right?