DEA agent] reassignment in 1990 to a DEA intelligence position in the State of Washington, prior to Michael Riconosciuto‘s March 1991 arrest there on drug charges, was more than coincidental....the agent was assigned to Riconosciuto’s home State to manufacture a case against him. Mr. Coleman stated he believes this was done to prevent Mr. Riconosciuto from becoming a credible witness concerning the U.S. government’s covert sale of PROMIS to foreign governments.
