Federal case over cigarette bootlegging law looms over Ho-Chunk raid

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From: Omaha World-Herald


WINNEBAGO, Neb. — A dispute over a law designed to remedy interstate cigarette bootlegging was one of the flash points surrounding a federal raid on the Winnebago Indian Reservation this week.

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Agents raided four Ho-Chunk Inc. sites Tuesday in Winnebago and seized truckloads of records related to tobacco sales. Ho-Chunk is an economic development corporation owned and operated by the tribe.

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