In Minneapolis, Bailey and Brill still had an ongoing case to con- front. Even if they’d lost control of Le Roux himself, they contin- ued to hold out hope of indicting him in Minnesota for his role as one of the biggest black-market painkiller importers in history. And there was the rest of the RX Limited network to dismantle. In October 2012, they flew in Le Roux’s cousin, Mathew Smith, along with two other Zimbabweans, to testify in front of a grand jury. Each of them identified photos of Le Roux, to verify that he was on the surveillance tapes and images in Brazil. They described the web of companies, like Wilex and Southern Ace, that they had been sent to Hong Kong and elsewhere to create. Afterward, the investigators took the witnesses to a Vikings-Titans football game.

Brill and Bailey had also coordinated with local DEA offices across the country to round up doctors and pharmacists who’d been some of the largest prescribers and suppliers in the network. Three RX Limited physicians, four affiliate website operators, and a pharmacist, arrested in New York and New Jersey, quickly en- tered guilty pleas. A housewife in Pennsylvania copped to forging a medical license and authorizing more than fifteen thousand prescriptions. She’d answered an ad for stay-at-home work on Craigslist. Babubhai Patel, the Detroit-area pharmacist captured on the wiretap, was brought in on unrelated charges of massive healthcare fraud.

But these were small targets, not the ones Brill and Bailey were most eager to arrest. They were after bigger fish like Moran Oz, Alon Berkman, and others higher up in the RX Limited chain of command. But arresting Le Roux’s lieutenants posed some of the same problems that capturing Le Roux himself had. Moran Oz, Alon Berkman, and Omer Bezalel were living in Israel, whose gov- ernment might prove resistant to extradition. Most of the crimes they had supposedly committed weren’t crimes under Israeli law. Lachlan McConnell and Shai Reuven were both still in Manila, living under a Philippine government that had so far proven less