He noted that one of the key players arrested, Jonathan Soto, a former city councilman in Passaic, was a Republican, and insisted that law enforcement considerations alone determined the timing of arrests.
Of those countries regulating online pharmacies, only 19% prohibited this practice, and indeed, 7% allowed it without adequate law enforcement considerations [ 15].
The DoJ "makes its decisions based on law-enforcement considerations and nothing else," says Kathryn Keneally, the former head of its tax division.Another former official argues that America's efforts to curb tax evasion have been effective, if you consider that the aim is not necessarily to maximise convictions but to scare those hiding money to come forward.
He said that various jailhouse informants against Dekraai and other murder defendants had "sought and expected consideration" for their testimony and were "each directly or impliedly promised by law enforcement that such consideration would be forthcoming".
"This defendant has persistently made up false reports about the planned assassinations of a judge, prosecutors, correction and police personnel and witnesses in an attempt to curry favor with law enforcement and obtain consideration," Justice Carol Berkman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan wrote in 2003.
Several cautioned that the issue had raised complex legal and policy considerations — including enforcement priorities, litigation strategy and the impact of international antidrug treaties — that remain unresolved, and that no decision was imminent.
The government says Arizona is trying to "interpose" its own judgments on "national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, humanitarian considerations and the rights of law-abiding citizens and aliens".
" As the solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., wrote in a brief urging the Supreme Court not to take the case, laws like Arizona's upset the federal government's careful balancing of "law enforcement priorities, foreign-relations considerations and humanitarian concerns".
But beyond the practical considerations about enforcement, several former Justice Department officials contended the feds will have little choice but to preempt legalization laws because they represent a massive encroachment on an issue of federal importance.
The fact of that matter is that as despised as she is by so many, I think it would be appropriate for law enforcement to extend those considerations so mob mentality does not take over".
The commission's consideration of enforcement action "raises again the whole specter of the sales practices at the firm".
