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Federal agents raid California marijuana university

IRS spokeswoman mum on purpose of Oakland sweep

Federal agents targeted one of the country’s leading pot advocates Monday in a raid on a San Francisco Bay area medical marijuana training school instrumental in pushing for ballot measures to legalize the drug. The doors to Oaksterdam University in downtown Oakland were cordoned off by yellow tape and blocked by U.S. marshals following an early-morning raid by agents with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. A

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As advertised in a television program about Oaksterdam University. I wonder if the TV documentary is how the DEA found them. After all "these criminals are easier to catch than real criminals that pay no taxes and run away. Oaksterdam criminals are easier to catch and prosecute because they are all taxpaying US citizens, and don't run away"