Bloomberg Buys Guns for Violent Criminals

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Timshel

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While jerko blames freedom in surrounding areas for guns in New York, his own prohibitions are more to blame. His high taxes on cigarettes have created a new source of revenue for violent criminals.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_13721965

14 charged with illegal buys of 77 million cigs
The Associated Press
Posted: 11/05/2009 03:18:06 PM MST

FALLS CHURCH, Va.—Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.

Two are also accused of paying an agent posing as a hit man to kill a husband and wife whom they believed had stolen from them.

The indictments handed up Thursday in federal court in Alexandria are the culmination of a yearlong investigation.

Authorities say the smuggling ring paid $8 million plus guns and drugs to the undercover agents for the cigarettes.

Cigarette smuggling has increased in recent years as high taxes in New York and elsewhere have made the crime more profitable.

The defendants lived in Virginia, Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia.
 
RStringfield said:
Two are also accused of paying an agent posing as a hit man to kill a husband and wife whom they believed had stolen from them.
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I'm not surprised. It's getting more and more difficult to find decent help these days.

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RStringfield said:
While jerko blames freedom in surrounding areas for guns in New York, his own prohibitions are more to blame. His high taxes on cigarettes have created a new source of revenue for violent criminals.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_13721965

14 charged with illegal buys of 77 million cigs
The Associated Press
Posted: 11/05/2009 03:18:06 PM MST

FALLS CHURCH, Va.—Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.

Two are also accused of paying an agent posing as a hit man to kill a husband and wife whom they believed had stolen from them.

The indictments handed up Thursday in federal court in Alexandria are the culmination of a yearlong investigation.

Authorities say the smuggling ring paid $8 million plus guns and drugs to the undercover agents for the cigarettes.

Cigarette smuggling has increased in recent years as high taxes in New York and elsewhere have made the crime more profitable.

The defendants lived in Virginia, Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia.
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if this had been an average everyday citizen, they'd be sitting in a prison cell awaiting trial, but because it's billionaire mayor bloomberg, he gets a pass.

loving that equal protection under the law yet?
 
Jngreznex said:
The solution if to require New Jersey to raise taxes on cigarettes, or increase federal taxation to a halfway reasonable level.
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Federal taxation wouldn't solve it, their state taxes would make them still more expensive in NYC.

This would also incentivize the black market game for the entire nation, not just in NYC and Canada.
 
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