Posted on 04/07/2011 9:39:57 PM PDT by cva41
Three Edmond men have been named in a 59-count federal indictment that accuses them of illegally profiting from the sale of more than $3 million in untaxed cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products.
Khawer Saeed Ghill, 40, Ahsan Ullah, 41, and Asmat Ullah, 60, all were charged ...
Some of the profits were transferred to Pakistan, the indictment claims.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsok.com ...
Keep raising those taxes....black market needs eager customers to operate....
If they keep raising them taxes, the politicians better be aware they are creating a market that is paying for the bullets that are killing our troops.
“Bin Laden needs a new window treatment, and Tony Soprano needs to put his kids through college, raise cigarette taxes!”
Obviously just good ‘ole American Indians selling tobacco products from the reservation.....
Some time back I had too muchh time on my hands and measured a pack of cigs, then calculated how mny packs would fit in a semi trruck trailer. Don’t remember the numbers, the cargo value was several $ million dollars per load. Whodathunkit?
Great way to raise terror money.
Okies can get cheap ciggies from the Indian stores. I noticed the comments at the Oklahoman are disabled - I can just imagine them.
Former sheriff of cock country Tennessee found a whole trailer load in his barn a few years ago, or so he told the jury.
Smoking bans - Just a bit of mission creep from the “War on Drugs”
That’s my hometown. Those ....names....weren’t common when I was there 22 years ago.
The real crime here is by the feds and their policies that amount to extortion.
Something must be catching, every time i even get near a Government building i start getting the urge to get my hand in some one else,s pocket.
Does government make thieves of people or do thieves just seek government?
That’s my hometown and those are still not common names.
***That’s my hometown and those are still not common names.***
With the checkerboard pattern of Indian owned land in Oklahoma it is easy to find a Smoke Shop in Oklahoma. there are several just across the OK line west from here.
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