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Since 1997, THE NEW AMERICAN has detailed the travails of four former Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Investigation (BNI) agents whose careers were ruined after they attempted to disrupt a Dominican drug ring protected by the State Department, CIA, and Clinton administration. (See "Smuggler's Dues" in our April 28, 1997 issue, and "Dealing With Druggies," in our June 22, 1998 issue.)
In 1995, the agents learned that proceeds from Dominican heroin sales were being sluiced into the coffers of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), whose presidential candidate, the late Jose Pena-Gomez, was identified by the CIA as the State Department's favored candidate for the Dominican presidency. The BNI officers refused to cooperate when the CIA demanded to know the names of confidential informants within the Dominican drug network. Immediately thereafter, the agents were taken off the streets, defamed in the press as corrupt and abusive, and threatened with civil lawsuits.
In early February, a federal civil rights case filed by two of the BNI agents, John "Sparky" McLaughlin and Charles Micewski, went to court. After deliberating for a little more than five hours, the jury returned a unanimous verdict favoring the plaintiffs, awarding a total of $1.5 million in punitive damages ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Good guys win in Philly. (Insider Report).