real money in contraband cigs

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk/2012/03/05/fredericksburg-man-agrees-to-5m-restitution-in-cigarette-case/

man pays 5 mill in restitution plus 625 k

[Monkeyleg]

Yeah, I'd given some thought to buying cigs down here and selling them to friends and relatives in WI when I went back to visit, but it's a federal crime now (6000 cigarettes or over).

It's gotten to the point where you even have to worry about breaking the law.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

this guy was moving a million bucks a month through a tiny gas station 

[Monkeyleg]

With cigarettes in NYC at over $110 for a carton of 200 cigs, moving a million dollars wouldn't be hard to do.

I remember when a carton was $1.14.

Also, a semi trailer can hold 70,000 cartons of cigarettes. Do you think people in organized crime know this?

[Viking]

Pack of cigs is the equivalent of 7 bucks here now, atleast legal cigs. I wonder how big the illegal market is.

[birdman]

Yeah, I'd given some thought to buying cigs down here and selling them to friends and relatives in WI when I went back to visit, but it's a federal crime now (6000 cigarettes or over).

It's gotten to the point where you even have to worry about breaking the law.

6000 and over?  So 300 packs....hmm...given the $3 a pack difference between VA and WI, and splitting the difference, that would cover my plane flight home for Christmas...

[Lee]

Just be sure to break a pack open and burn one...5999 Marlburo's on the wall...5999 Marlburo's...you burn one down, take em to town...
I'd hate to go to jail for selling cigarettes...it would be embarrassing.
Just more of the War on Some Drugs (non taxed ones) gone awry.