Federal prosecutors in 2018 needed to criminally cost Walmart over the corporate's opioid gross sales, however prime Trump administration legislation enforcement officers killed that effort, a bombshell report says. 

In a ProPublica article revealed Wednesday, the investigative journalism outlet reported that prosecutors from the federal Jap District of Texas over two years had amassed "extremely damning proof" that the world's greatest retailer had stuffed opioid prescriptions for patrons who then died of overdoses  over pharmacists' objections.

Pharmacists working within the state sounded the alarm to Walmart's company workplace, noting that most of the prescriptions had been coming from docs who had been operating "capsule mills," the report mentioned.

However Trump appointees on the Division of Justice squashed the case, the article experiences. 

Investigators obtained data that confirmed pharmacists working in Walmarts in different states, together with Maine, North Carolina, Kansas and Washington, additionally voiced concern,...