The Shuster Project
Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues
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The Shuster Project Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues
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To: Mr. Hala Maksoud - President – American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee From: Robert X. Shuster – Executive Director – The Shuster Project / The New Dance Project 177 Andrew Avenue – Naugatuck – Connecticut – 06770-4359 Telephone: 1-203-723-1690 1-203-723-9266 Web Site: http://www.RXShuster.org Email Address: Rshus177@aol.com Date: 6/22/99 Re: Fraudulent tobacco industry policies, practices, procedures and false claims and it’s negative impact upon ethnic minority-owned retail stores selling cigarettes and tobacco products. Specifically, "Redlining" and "contract payment" discrimination based upon ethnicity and store location(s). Dear Mr. Maksoud, On May 14th of this year, after considerable preparation, I launched a Web site that for the first time ever is dealing with NON-health related tobacco industry issues. I was employed by the former American Tobacco Company from 1974 – 1991. During this time, I was witness to an incredible array of fraudulent policies, practices and procedures employed by the tobacco industry that negatively impacted many ethnic community retail storeowners. The practice of "redlining" is employed by the remaining tobacco companies, to this day, which denies mostly ethnic minority storeowners the "perks" and advantages of cigarette package and carton "display contracts." This discrimination is further "intensified" by applying a "prerequisite" of non-"ratioed" carton volumes (the number of cartons of cigarettes of all tobacco companies manufacture sold in an average week) to further deny "display contracts" to ethnic minority stores, including stores of Arab ownership. I am in the process of communicating with the Attorneys General of the 50 states to provide them with detailed information regarding the most egregious of the tobacco industry’s fraudulent policies, practices and procedures, therefore I am limited, at this time, in what I can supply to you. However, if you visit my Web site, http://www.RXShuster.org, I have already begun to place tobacco company forms, documents and guides there that your membership that owns retail stores that sell cigarettes and tobacco products might find useful, including the Manufacturers’ Code Dating guide. The issue you may wish to involve yourself in directly, Mr. Maksoud, is the issue of "redlining." If you review the "Contract Payment" guide posted on my site, you will see the significant moneys being denied stores of all ethnic minority ownership, including those of Arabic ownership, based merely upon the stores location, carton "volume" sales or merely the ethnicity of the stores owner. If you have any questions or, upon review of my site, would like my assistance in addressing any of the discriminatory areas I have been able to reveal thusfar on my Web site, there are plenty of "contact" mechanisms provided to you within my site and in this letter that you can contact me with. If you would like to be informed by Email of future Press Releases that I send to various organizations, media outlets and politicians, please let me know and I will be more than happy to keep you updated as I am able to add more documentation and information to my Web site. It is presently at less than 1/16 of 1% of planned content. I look forward to hearing from you sometime in the near future. Sincerely,
RXShuster
PS. This letter will be posted on my Web site. As more people, organizations and politicians access my site, it is important that it is known who has been contacted and informed as to these NON-health related tobacco industry issues, their invitation to be updated and how the recipients of these notifications have responded for the good of their memberships, readers and viewers.
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