From: WHEC News 10
NYS Exposed: High cigarette taxes fuel the nation’s biggest black market
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If you buy a pack of cigarettes in New York and it doesn’t have an official “cigarette excise tax stamp” on it, you are buying black market cigarettes. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says the biggest smuggling rings buy truckloads of cigarettes from the Carolinas and sell them in New York State tax free.
Brean: “What terrorist organizations have gotten black market cigarette money?”
Steven Dickey, Special Agent-in-Charge ATF: “We have Al Qaeda and we have Hezbollah.”
