count would be terminated. Schultz alerted his contacts at AlphaNet, who proposed switching his pharmacies onto United States Postal Service and UPS accounts until the VIPPS application could be straightened out.

By that point, it was too late. Schultz's fate was already decided by the DEA controlled buys his pharmacies had unwittingly shipped. One afternoon in March 2012, a group of federal agents from the FDA and the IRS arrived at the door of Schultz Pharmacy in Osh- kosh bearing a search warrant. They wanted to examine all of Schultz's equipment and records pertaining to the online phar- macy. Schultz immediately admitted his involvement and agreed to cooperate. He had little in the way of information about the larger scheme he'd been a part of—some names and phone num- bers, emails back and forth about prescriptions and accounting. He agreed to maintain his relationship with his AlphaNet con- tacts, and to let the agents record calls to company representatives. Then RX Limited's largest supplier, an eighty-year-old pharmacist in Wisconsin with a heart condition, gave the agents a room to set up in at the pharmacy and served them coffee.