Bogus ZigZags!
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:53:16 GMT
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washingtonpost.com
Mich. Man Admits to Cigarette Paper Scheme
The Associated Press
Friday, February 11, 2005; 11:05 AM
SHREVEPORT, La. - A Michigan man admitted scheming
to sell cigarette papers that were not only fakes of the popular
Zig-Zag brand but also lacked the usual 100 leaves
- a five-year scheme that cost the real distributor
$1.8 million, prosecutors said.
Wajdi Abdulaziz Beydoun, 39, pleaded guilty in federal
court Thursday to conspiracy and trafficking in counterfeit
goods, U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington said.
Sentencing was set for May 24. Beydoun faces up to
15 years in prison and a $2.25 million fine.
Beydoun paid a Tucson, Ariz., company $16,000 to
print counterfeit Zig-Zag covers that were then
smuggled into Mexico, where prisoner laborers
used them to repackage rolling papers.
While true Zig-Zag packs contain 100 leaves,
the faked ones held 32.
The packs were sold for $1.25 each in
Louisiana and Dearborn, Mich.
The scheme ran from January 1999 until
last August, when a terrorism task force raided
Tobacco World stores in Logansport, Shreveport
and Bossier City. Beydoun, who lived in the
Dearborn Heights area, was arrested in
Michigan two days after the raid.
© 2005 The Associated Press
Correspondent:: generic spam harvester bait
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:15:38 GMT
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:53:16 GMT, König Prüß, GfbAEV
wrote:
>washingtonpost.com
>Mich. Man Admits to Cigarette Paper Scheme
>
>
>The Associated Press
>Friday, February 11, 2005; 11:05 AM
>
>SHREVEPORT, La. - A Michigan man admitted scheming
>to sell cigarette papers that were not only fakes of the popular
>Zig-Zag brand but also lacked the usual 100 leaves
> - a five-year scheme that cost the real distributor
>$1.8 million, prosecutors said.
>
Hrmm!!! The zig-zag papers I buy in the local Food Lion contain 32
(36?) sheets per package. It is a buy one, get one free deal, so one
buys 64 leaves for $1.25. I've never seen a zig-zag packet containing
100 leaves.
Have I been smoking the fruits of Mexican prison labor?
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:22:53 GMT
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nunya wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:53:16 GMT, König Prüß, GfbAEV
> wrote:
>
>>washingtonpost.com
>>Mich. Man Admits to Cigarette Paper Scheme
>>
>>
>>The Associated Press
>>Friday, February 11, 2005; 11:05 AM
>>
>>SHREVEPORT, La. - A Michigan man admitted scheming
>>to sell cigarette papers that were not only fakes of the popular
>>Zig-Zag brand but also lacked the usual 100 leaves
>> - a five-year scheme that cost the real distributor
>>$1.8 million, prosecutors said.
>>
>
>Hrmm!!! The zig-zag papers I buy in the local Food Lion contain 32
>(36?) sheets per package. It is a buy one, get one free deal, so one
>buys 64 leaves for $1.25. I've never seen a zig-zag packet containing
>100 leaves.
>
>Have I been smoking the fruits of Mexican prison labor?
>
>
I dunno! I'll have to check my wrappers,
I got the orange pack, not the white one,
so I don't know what's normal. I'll have to
look and see if the Zig-Zag man is winking,
sometimes he does!
Zonked in ZigZag, Oregon
Correspondent:: Candlemoth
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:10:47 -0800
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König Prüß wrote:
> nunya wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:53:16 GMT, König Prüß, GfbAEV
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>washingtonpost.com
>>>Mich. Man Admits to Cigarette Paper Scheme
>>>
>>>
>>>The Associated Press
>>>Friday, February 11, 2005; 11:05 AM
>>>
>>>SHREVEPORT, La. - A Michigan man admitted scheming
>>>to sell cigarette papers that were not only fakes of the popular
>>>Zig-Zag brand but also lacked the usual 100 leaves
>>>- a five-year scheme that cost the real distributor
>>>$1.8 million, prosecutors said.
>>>
>>
>>Hrmm!!! The zig-zag papers I buy in the local Food Lion contain 32
>>(36?) sheets per package. It is a buy one, get one free deal, so one
>>buys 64 leaves for $1.25. I've never seen a zig-zag packet containing
>>100 leaves.
>>
>>Have I been smoking the fruits of Mexican prison labor?
>>
>>
>
>
> I dunno! I'll have to check my wrappers,
> I got the orange pack, not the white one,
> so I don't know what's normal. I'll have to
> look and see if the Zig-Zag man is winking,
> sometimes he does!
>
> Zonked in ZigZag, Oregon
>
I roll my own using Zig Zag canned tobacco and filter tubes. In each
can there is a cello-pack containing 2-100 leaf packs of papers.
(Complimentary,not for resale) I must have several hundred of these
damn things but being a packrat, I hate to throw them away.
Bastards used to give a dollar off coupon on ZZ tobacco in every box of
tubes, but they've cut that out.
Correspondent:: "ArWeGod"
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:44:49 GMT
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"generic spam harvester bait" wrote in message
news:p97s01tko153scl5alv2a3parcajam4btt@4ax.com...
> Have I been smoking the fruits of Mexican prison labor?
How many times have we asked ourselves that very question?!!
--
ArWePipeSmokers
Correspondent:: "Giles"
Date: 12 Feb 2005 09:39:41 -0800
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König wrote:
> washingtonpost.com
> Mich. Man Admits to Cigarette Paper Scheme
>
> The scheme ran from January 1999 until
> last August, when a terrorism task force raided
> Tobacco World stores in Logansport, Shreveport
> and Bossier City.
Those bastards! First the World Trade Center, and now Mr. ZigZag!
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:52:10 GMT
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"Giles" wrote:
>König wrote:
>> washingtonpost.com
>> Mich. Man Admits to Cigarette Paper Scheme
>>
>> The scheme ran from January 1999 until
>> last August, when a terrorism task force raided
>> Tobacco World stores in Logansport, Shreveport
>> and Bossier City.
>
>Those bastards! First the World Trade Center, and now Mr. ZigZag!
>
I know!!! It's like adding insult to injury!
You can drink my whiskey out a ol' froot jar,
but hungh-uh! Don't step on my blue suede shoes!