North charleston are failing and they plan to meet with governor mcmaster to talk about possibilities.

>>> opioid crisis in the us is gathering more attention in the past few years and an historic move with criminal charges filed against opioid distributor and we have john laurence with the story.

>> john laurence: a historic moment in the war on drugs.

>> the first time executives of the pharmaceutical distributor and a distributor itself have been charged with drug trafficking.

>> john laurence: these are against rochester drug cooperative (rdc) which is one of the largest drug shooters in the nation.

>> from 2012 ?tony 17 it shipped tens of millions of highly addictive oxycodone pills and fentanyl products to pharmacies that it knew were illegally dispensing narcotics.

>> john laurence: according to court documents of the roughly 1 1/2 million narcotic orders made between 2012 and 2016, rochester drug cooperative (rdc) marked for as suspicious.

The dea says at least 2000 of those orders should have been flagged.

>> our office will do everything in its power to bring to justice anyone responsible for unlawfully fueling this opioid epidemic .

That includes executives who illegally distribute drugs from their boardrooms. >> john laurence: laurence doud is the former ceo of rochester drug cooperative (rdc) with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to defraud the country for his lawyer says he's been framed