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A new investigation from the Trace shows that the ATF rarely enforces the law
Friday June 4, 2021. 02:36 PM , from BoingBoing
A few years ago, an investigation from The New York Times revealed how the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had a basically unrestricted checkbook, which was fragrantly abused by the bureau at large. ATF agents freely mingled federal funds with private businesses and even their own private lives, mostly under the guise of 'undercover work,' from which some of them even made personal profits as they orchestrated their own variations on the same black market deals they were supposed to be investigating:
Thousands of pages of newly unsealed records reveal a widespread scheme — a highly unorthodox merger of an undercover law enforcement operation and a legitimate business. — Read the rest
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