Drug center worker hid evidence of failed tests
Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 11:25 am | By: Radical Russ
Drug center worker hid evidence of failed tests — chicagotribune.com
LANSING, Mich. – A worker at a drug testing center admitted she accepted payments of cash or pot to conceal evidence of inmates’ and suspects’ failed drug tests.Amanda Winter, 22, of Lansing pleaded guilty Wednesday in Grand Rapids federal court to public corruption. Winter worked at Insight Recovery Center, a federal contractor.
She admitted taking the payments from convicts and federal defendants to ignore positive preliminary urine tests.
The charge carries up to 15 years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Under the plea deal, she agreed to cooperate with investigators, and the sentencing judge will be informed of her cooperation.
Between June 2007 and June 2008, the indictment said Winter took payments from people whose urine samples came up positive on preliminary drug tests in exchange for not reporting the tests. Because she did not report the positive tests, the samples were discarded rather than tested further.
Winter also warned some people that they were scheduled to be tested, the indictment said.
Drinking lots of water. Taking creatine. Adulterants. Synthetic urine. Abstinence. I thought I’d heard of all the ways people use to beat a drug test, but bribing the drug tester, that’s one I hadn’t heard yet.
Once again, prohibition creates corruption.
