Editor’s Note: Loosie sales fund terrorist groups.
From: pix11.com
by Mary Murphy
THE BRONX — When PIX11 recently walked into one bodega on Prospect Avenue in the Bronx, the cashier quickly pulled back three cigarettes, known as “loosies,” that he was offering a customer, who was left holding the cash in his hand.
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In 2013, one of the defendants in another Brooklyn ring had long-time ties to Rashid Baz, the Lebanese cab driver accused of shooting up a van full of Orthodox Jewish students on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994.