Editor’s Note: Cigarettes traffickers are responsible for Eric Garner’s death. See here and CRE’s paper, Weaponizing Poverty.
From: New York Post
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At the high end are Indian-reservation buttlegging and big-time smuggling operations — some allegedly producing revenue for Mideast terrorist groups — like the Palestinian ring busted in New York City two years ago.
In the middle are countless city bodegas; they get their product from the buttleggers and peddle it by the pack, mostly under the counter.