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Revolving door redux: The DEA’s recently departed No. 2 returns to a Big Pharma consulting firm

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By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s revolving door kept spinning this week as the Drug Enforcement Administration’s recently departed second-in-command returned for another stint with a high-powered consulting firm where he previously advised OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. Louis Milione had retired from the DEA this summer for a second time amid reporting by The Associated Press on potential conflicts caused by his prior consulting for the pharmaceutical industry. Less than three months later, Milione again landed a plum posting at Guidepost Solutions. That’s the consulting firm hired by some of the same companies that Milione had been tasked with regulating when he returned to the DEA in 2021 as the top deputy to the agency’s head.

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