Two California attorneys have filed a federal class action that would hold the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice liable for the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Attorney Katya Komisaruk says they already have their smoking gun: a previously secret agreement forged with the DOJ in 1982 that allowed the CIA to remain quiet about drug smuggling by sources connected to the Nicaraguan Contras.
April 07, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Oakland, Calif. attorneys William Simpich Jr. and Katya Komisaruk have taken on their share of long-shot cases and won.
But their most recent — a federal class action that would hold the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice liable for the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s — makes their previous battles look easy.
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