Cough up $10M! Cigarette shops on L.I. reservation burned for untaxed sales

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cough-10m-cigaretteig-shops-reservation-burned-untaxed-sales-article-1.1306312

Three Indian smoke shops must pay more than $10 million to New York City for trafficking untaxed cigarettes off a Long Island reservation, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled.

Judge Carol Amon also prohibited the bootleg smoke sellers — which operated on the Poospatuck Reservation in Mastic — from ever selling untaxed cigarettes again.

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The shops — Peace Pipe Smoke Shop, TDM Discount Cigarettes, and Red Dot Feather Smoke Shop — were permitted to sell untaxed cigarettes to members of the tribe, but not to nonmembers.

In siding with the city, the court said in its March 28 decision that “unstamped cigarettes sold by these defendants were trafficked in large quantities into the city from the Poospatuck Reservation for many years.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. Luckily, NY State has no capital punishment.

Right?

[FrodosPet]

2. NY has not had capital punishment since 2007

Organized crime, however, has their own death penalty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Bravo#Death

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On March 10, 1993, Bresciano was found shot to death. He was 44 years old. In all, 17 shots were fired, 7 to the head and 10 in the chest and abdomen area while watching hockey in his Vimont, Laval, Quebec home. It is widely believed that his alleged role in illegal cigarette smuggling in Canada led to his murder. Rick Martel has stated in interviews that because of Bresciano's notoriety from being a popular professional wrestler, he was able to attract many customers to switch over to having him as a supplier of illegal cigarettes, thus crossing the mafia.

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