2 plead guilty in cig case
Jerry Burke, 67, of Tupelo and Randy Benham, 43, of Cordova, Tenn., waived indictment and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper in Greenville to carrying out a scheme to defraud federal and state governments, making false monthly tobacco reports and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee said in a news release.
Burke agreed to forfeit more than $1.6 million in cash along with a 1982 Beech C90 Turbo Prop Airplane, valued at more than $700,000, and two Chevrolet Suburbans.
Clarion-Ledger
11/25/9
Posted November 27, 2009 - 8:17 am
Friday, September 3, 2010
Alan--look at the U.S. Attorney News Release that the gulf coast news posted. Go to the bottom of that press release and look at “Case Details”. Its a pdf of the Factual Basis.
http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/GCNnewsContrabandCigsCase112509.htm
Its real interesting to me that part of the original tobacco settlement called for money being contributed to the National Association of AGs.
Wow. $5 per carton to the AGs. I guess we now know who is getting all the money from “big tobacco”.