To: Great Dane
ICE Assistant Secretary Michael J. Garcia said the smugglers are believed to have cheated the federal government, as well as three state governments, out of $8 million in tax revenue, while reaping enormous profits. He called the probe the largest investigation to date involving cigarette smuggling.
"Cigarette smuggling costs the United States more than a billion dollars in lost revenue every year,
Losing a billion a year and these yoyo's recouped in "their biggest investigation on smuggling" a paultry 8 million.
I don't think these clowns are going to deter anyone.
14 posted on
01/30/2004 12:33:42 PM PST by
Bogey
To: Bogey
Losing a billion a year and these yoyo's recouped in "their biggest investigation on smuggling" a paultry 8 million. I don't think these clowns are going to deter anyone.Agreed, they have been fighting drug-smuggling for what... 40 years, spent billions upon billions, and still only catches 2%.
15 posted on
01/30/2004 8:35:19 PM PST by
Great Dane
(You can smoke just about everywhere in Denmark.)
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