12
July 2024
Past Event
Ray Donovan on the Fentanyl Crisis and Strategic Law Enforcement

Event will air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

Ray Donovan on the Fentanyl Crisis and Strategic Law Enforcement

Past Event
Hudson Institute
July 12, 2024
Ray Donovan, chief of operations of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), stands in front of "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022.  (Agnes Bun/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ray Donovan, chief of operations of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), stands in front of "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. (Agnes Bun/AFP via Getty Images)
12
July 2024
Past Event

Event will air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

Speakers:
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David Asher

Senior Fellow

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Raymond Donovan

Former Director of Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration

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After a monthslong investigation, the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and Chinese Communist Party uncovered that China is actively subsidizing the sale of fentanyl precursors to Mexico. With 80,000–100,000 American citizens dying of fentanyl overdoses each year, the administration needs to comprehensively disrupt the finances and operations of Mexico’s drug cartels and their suppliers, launderers, and partners in crime: the Chinese Communists.

David Asher and Raymond Donovan, former director of operations of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and a strategic law enforcement expert, will discuss how America should hold the perpetrators accountable by strategically targeting them from the top down.

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