I'm sure that you can understand that as 34 days have passed with absolutely no notification to "The Shuster Project" whatsoever, from this Gene Gavin and/or anyone else from his Department of Revenue Services, or to not have even acknowledged the receipt of any information relative to tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes involving in excess of $300+ Million Dollars in combined, defrauded CT State Income Tax revenues and defrauded CT State Sales Tax revenues, that we at "The Shuster Project" are being led to believe that the Rowland administration continues to not take these crimes seriously, despite such a huge loss of CT State tax revenues.

As a result, discussions between my senior staff and I, since our receipt of the 11/29/02 correspondence from Gov. Rowland's office and our initial response then that we would take a "wait and see" posture, provided this Gene Gavin with ample time for either himself or one of his staff persons to contact us with some "timetable/framework" to be established by which his office and members of "The Shuster Project" could have gotten together to have begun the process of addressing tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes in CT; yet it seems that beyond the rhetoric of Gov. Rowland's office, this process of addressing these significant tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes is not yet going to occur.

Unless and until Gov. Rowland and the relevant members of his administration whose responsibility it is to address fraud and false claims crimes with respect to defrauded CT State Income Tax revenues and defrauded CT State Sales Tax revenues, in sums that conservatively exceed $300+ Million Dollars, take these tobacco industry crimes seriously, "The Shuster Project" can only conclude that Gov. Rowland and his administration are being deceitful and cannot be viewed as credible "partners" in addressing and dealing with these significant crimes against the honest taxpayers and citizens of Connecticut.

Attached to this e-mail is a Word document that establishes the position of "The Shuster Project" with respect to the absence of any contact whatsoever from this Gene Gavin or anyone else from the Department of Revenue Services or the Governor's office for the last 34 days.

So, unless and until a credible, tangible "timetable/framework" of interactivity between the Governor's office and "The Shuster Project" is established, "The Shuster Project" intends to continue it's critically acclaimed work both within it's award-winning web site and in promoting it's first book detailing tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes, which also details all those who were clearly and repeatedly advised as to the scope and the significant, negative financial impact of those crimes with respect to States' tax revenues, yet did nothing about it.

Governor Rowland,

                It was prudent on the part of “The Shuster Project” to have waited to see how your correspondence of 11/29/02 was going to “play out.”

Given the incredible length of time it has already taken for your office to finally act and bring someone from your administration in on the tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes responsible for already defrauding in excess of $300+ Million Dollars in just two CT State Tax revenue streams, yet also giving you the benefit of all well-placed doubts, it turns out that the 11/29/02 correspondence from your office was nothing more than additional, deliberate deceit and nothing more.

This Gene Gavin fellow never took the time to establish contact with anyone within “The Shuster Project” organization; this despite our well-documented contact information, which we have provided your office again and again.

In the discussions my senior staff and I have conducted since receiving your 11/29/02 correspondence, we determined that should a month go by without any contact whatsoever from either this Gene Gavin or you, yourself, the Governor of CT, that it would be quite clear that your intentions were both less than honorable and a complete disgrace to the citizens on Connecticut.

We were also in agreement that “The Shuster Project” will absolutely not, under any circumstances, be dragged into any petty games or to have our critically acclaimed work be the object of any attempted manipulation on your part, for whatever reason(s) that only you know, that continues to prevent you from addressing these tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes here in CT.

Inasmuch as the work of “The Shuster Project” may generate any additional correspondence from our organization to the office of the Governor of CT, and yet despite that scenario, “The Shuster Project” will never wait, nor expect, for your office to ever be honest, to tell the truth nor shall we view with any credibility any “commitment” your office makes unless and until tangible actions, mutual interactivity and results occur.

With a $500 Million Dollar budget deficit looming over the State of CT and with many within CT’s legislature and it’s Governor scratching their collective heads wondering what to do, and yet a credible, responsible and critically acclaimed citizen’s Activist organization steps up to the plate and offers a significant solution to the recovery of at least $300+ MILLION DOLLARS in defrauded CT State Tax revenues that can be easily recovered by merely working with that organization, yet for the years and years that they lamely attempted to avoid addressing such an enormous sum, then those specific individuals are clearly unworthy of the positions to which you were either elected or appointed.

The work of “The Shuster Project” shall continue, as we have thousands of students and teachers utilizing our web site on a regular basis.

As these youngsters continue to learn not only of tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes, but also who in state and national government also continues to avoid correcting and prosecuting these crimes, along with those who do nothing to recover these vast sums of defrauded taxpayer dollars, I have absolutely no doubts at all that they will “speak” to those irresponsible legislators with their votes.

“The Shuster Project” continues to stand ready to work with those responsible, credible and honest legislators and appointed officials to address tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes and the multiple tens of Billions of dollars that are being defrauded all across the country as a result of those crimes, including CT.

Sincerely,

RXShuster

Executive Director

The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues

http://www.rxshuster.org/

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