The government's case also contained potentially embarrassing allegations that top Google executives, including co-founder Larry Page, were told about legal problems with the drug ads.Mr. Page, now Google's chief executive, knew about the illicit conduct, said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island who led the multiagency federal task force that conducted the sting. "We simply know from the documents we reviewed and witnesses we interviewed that Larry Page knew what was going on,"
David Whitaker posed as an agent for online drug dealers in dozens of recorded phone calls and email exchanges with Google sales executives, spending $200,000 in government money for ads selling narcotics, steroids and other controlled substances.
Whitaker and federal agents set up a series of websites with names like SportsDrugs.net and NotGrowingOldEasy.com, which claimed to offer drugs such as HGH, steroids, RU-486, oxycodone, and hydrocodone to American consumers without a prescription. Whitaker told the Journal that he "signaled his illegal intent" by, for example, telling Google sales executives that his shipments had been seized by US customs officials.
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