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Disgraced DEA agent sentenced to 13 years in corruption case
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U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo said the longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Chad A. Scott, caused “far reaching” damage “to the administration of justice.”
The sentencing capped a five-year case that shook the DEA and resulted in convictions of three other members of a New Orleans-based federal drug task force. Prosecutors portrayed Scott as more dangerous than the most hardened heroin dealers he locked up, saying the Louisiana lawman "broke every rule in the book" to enforce his "own approximation of justice." They had asked Milazzo to sentence Scott to nearly two decades in prison.More Related News