The Shuster Project

Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues

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To The Honorable Attorney General Janet Reno,

Events of the past week involving Congress and the denial of funding desired by the DOJ relative to tobacco industry litigation has prompted me to once again contact the DOJ, this time personally and at the highest level.

Apparently the team of persons we were directed to by the DOJ at the Department of the Treasury/IRS when we first made DOJ contact in early 1997, which include Special Agent Joseph S. Patoka, Jr. out of the IRS New Haven, CT office, have made unilateral decisions to keep the materials and evidence we presented to them of tobacco industry federal Income Tax Fraud from you.

By Special Agent Patoka, Jr.'s own estimates, including all acts of recovery taken by the various political subdivisions involved to our materials and evidence, we are speaking of recovery of lost federal Income Tax funds due to tobacco industry federal Income Tax fraud, alone, in excess of $500 - $800 MILLION Dollars.

My name is Robert X. Shuster and I was employed within the tobacco industry for over 17 years with the former American Tobacco Company out of Greenwich, CT.

The best way to describe my employment there is as a marketing representative.

During my tenure there, I was witness to dozens of instances of tobacco industry Fraud and False Claims violations including, but not limited to, federal Income Tax fraud, states Income Tax fraud, states Sales Tax fraud and Antitrust violations.

My attempts to address and correct these illegalities within the tobacco industry are the sole reason why I am now "outside" the tobacco industry, since 1991.

During the last 9 years, I have patiently and methodically established a resource, The Shuster Project, which is beginning to factually lay out the various issues of tobacco industry Fraud & False Claims best illustrated at our web site at:

http://www.rxshuster.org

As I intend to make this correspondence brief and to the point of best advantage to the DOJ, I suggest you review The Shuster Project web site content at:

http://rxshuster.org/contigen.htm

...as this illustrates the actual tobacco company/industry document which details the federal Income Tax fraud as it occurred and continues to occur today, unabated, for the past 45+ years.

The only question here is why, when through the presentation of this evidence which illustrates tens of thousands of instances of federal Income Tax fraud by virtue of all of the tobacco companies not paying federal (and state) Income Taxes on tens upon tens of thousands of employees "UN-adjusted" incomes as explained at:

http://rxshuster.org/contigen.htm

...are the tobacco companies still being allowed to defraud the federal government out of what is now surely in excess of $1 BILLION Dollars in federal Income Tax fraud?

Special Agent Patoka, Jr. and the persons involved at the IRS and the Department of the Treasury surely need to receive severe reprimands if not dismissals for the negligent handling of the evidence and materials we presented to them with the understanding that we would be partnered into the prosecution of the tobacco companies for the recovery of the defrauded federal Income Tax money.

We have other directions yet to take in terms of assisting the states recover other defrauded money and yet other programs we need to launch to help wholesale and retail businesses prevent embezzlement of tobacco product inventory from embezzlement by tobacco company representatives and the sales tax liabilities they face as a result of tobacco company False Claims utilized in the pricing of the product at retail that occurs on a daily basis.

All of the contact information you require to contact me can be found at the bottom of the entry page at The Shuster Project web site at:

http://www.rxshuster.org

As is our custom, I will be posting this letter in our Correspondence 2000 page at:

http://rxshuster.org/correspondence.htm

Upon hearing from you I will direct one of the 2 law firms on our team, the one responsible for the initial negotiation and inclusion of The Shuster Project into the IRS prosecution of the tobacco companies for federal Income Tax fraud, so he can once again ensure that we are sufficiently partnered with the DOJ in the recovery process of the defrauded federal Income Tax funds.

I stand ready to assist the DOJ recover huge sums of defrauded federal Income Tax revenues as a result of tobacco industry federal Income Tax Fraud as I have since we first brought the necessary materials and evidence to the DOJ, almost 3 years ago.

I will be mailing an exact "hard copy" of this email correspondence tomorrow via USPS certified mail to:

The Honorable United States Attorney General Janet Reno

U.S.Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20530-0001

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

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