Des Moines Register: ATF Tobacco Investigation Schemes Is ‘Highly Questionable’
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
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ATF, ICE, Local Police Bust $20M Tobacco Op
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Got a smoke? The ATF closed a three-year joint investigation by the US Attorney’s office for the Western District of Virginia and District of South Carolina, the ATF, the IRS, ICE and the Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Department with multiple arrests in a scheme to move and tobacco illegally between Virginia and South…
Watchdog Group Criticizes ATF For Not Doing Enough to Crack Down on Tobacco Sales Fraud
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacks coordination and is not doing nearly enough to crack down on the fraud involved in the distribution and sales of tobacco that amounts to more $5 billion in lost U.S. taxes a year and is sometimes linked to terrorism…