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Letter to David Vladeck - Public Citizen Litigation Group - 11/06/2002
The Shuster Project has changed it's focus, somewhat, away from a direct activism with respect to elected and appointed officials and legislators, states Attorneys General, certain national organization leaders, media outlets and the like. We are now directing our efforts more successfully towards educating grammar school, high school and college students, who will be the future legislators, prosecutors and national leaders who, armed with the detailed knowledge and understanding of tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes, of which The Shuster Project continues to receive critical acclaim ... From time to time we will also continue to initiate certain "outreach" initiatives, such as the letter below, in the attempt to bring in some "Top Guns" who may also take some actions along with us, with respect to these tobacco company crimes ...
To: David Vladeck
Law Professor
Georgetown University
Director of the Public Citizen Litigation Group From: Robert X. Shuster
Executive Director
The Shuster Project – Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues Date: 11/06/2002 Re: Los Angeles Times Article: Cigarettes Portrayed as Currency of Crime
EU suit against R.J.
Reynolds describes a worldwide system of money laundering. I read with great interest an article sent to me from www.SmokeScreen.org, of which I am a member and we also have a Public Citizen icon and link to your organization within our web site, about RJReynolds and the EU lawsuit against that tobacco company with respect to cigarettes being portrayed as a "Currency of Crime" in several European countries and across several continents, along with your comments regarding this. As the founder and Executive Director of the Award-winning "The Shuster Project" (http://www.rxshuster.org), my tiny staff and I have worked tirelessly since May 14th of 1999 to illustrate the on-going, multiple tens of BILLIONS of dollars in tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes which continue to defraud state and federal income tax revenues along with defrauding states' sales tax revenues in those states with "Minimum State Price" statutes, including my own state of Connecticut. Although "The Shuster Project" has literally contacted and alerted every federal Congressperson and select U.S. Senators and literally every CT State Representative and CT State Senator, along with most of the states’ Attorneys General, the IRS, U.S. Dept. of Justice, various Governors and various national organization “leaders,” not to mention well over 3,750 media outlets ranging from newspapers, radio news stations and television news stations, to the most egregious of these tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes ... including the crafting and passage of a CT "False Claims" Bill-HB6942 (http://www.rxshuster.org/6942.htm) by our organization ... ALL of our "Press Releases" and "Special Alerts" have gone completely ignored and avoided by these "elected" and "appointed" officials and individuals with respect to the investigation of/into and the recovery of these defrauded state and federal tax revenues. Here in CT, where a budget deficit in excess of $300+ Million Dollars now exists, a potential "recovery" in excess of $300+ Million Dollars also exists in the form of the recovery of these defrauded CT state income taxes and CT state sales taxes (the latter with respect to the deliberate "mispricing" to BELOW "State Minimum Price" levels by edict and the corporate policies and procedures placed upon the "Big 4" tobacco company's field sales representatives.) Yet there remains no hope or expectation, whatsoever, that either CT’s Governor, Attorney General, state legislator(s) or even a municipal leader is ever going to lift one finger to either act to investigate or even to initiate the recovery of the very defrauded state tax revenue moneys that can completely eliminate the entire CT state budget deficit and rightly reclaim not only the defrauded tax revenues, but to once and for all act to make absolutely sure that these CT state tax revenue streams regularly revert back into CT’s state treasury and that the safeguards that The Shuster Project has proposed to thoroughly shut down these “oversights” are forcefully utilized and enforced in order to insure that these tax revenue streams are never defrauded again in the future. Although the "focus" of The Shuster Project has recently and dramatically changed from the direct activism we had directed towards CT and other state and federal legislators and states' Attorneys General and other individuals with an expectation towards legislative and legal "remedies" and "recoveries" of these tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes and the huge, huge sums of defrauded state and federal income tax and defrauded states' sales tax revenues, not to mention even some significant municipal fraud occurring (http://www.rxshuster.org/municipa.htm), as almost 4 years of "barking up the wrong tree" with these people has shown that either they fear the tobacco companies too much to merely do their jobs, enforce the laws being broken and/or pass new ones, such as The Shuster Project's HB6942, and USE IT/them, which they haven't and sofar seem unlikely to do and isn't going to happen ... we are now more successfully focused on "teaching" significant numbers of students here in the United States and other countries, via our current and growing web site content and, soon, our upcoming book, which will illustrate in greater detail and content these tobacco industry crimes, and continue to now receive increasing critical acclaim for our work, thus clearly establishing our credibility and highly regarded reputation for the authentic representation and delineations of tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes, along with illustrating various Antitrust violations with respect to contractual discrimination against minority storeowners by displaying various contracts utilized by tobacco companies and other tobacco company forms and documents made available for viewing in our web site, thus better preparing future legislative leaders, prosecutors and relevant national organization leaders to address these tobacco industry crimes … we at The Shuster Project, recognizing our significant responsibilities will, from time to time, expend some time and energy in “outreach” efforts such as this in an attempt to bring some “big guns” to bear on these tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes. In the article I was provided, your focus was on the “international” implications of just the RJR tobacco company with respect to “currency from crime” issues, yet I urge you to take some time to review The Shuster Project web site at http://www.rxshuster.org to see that multiple tens of billions of dollars are being defrauded each and every day by the “Big 4” tobacco companies right here in the good ole’ UsofA. I stand ready to assist your organization and partner with you should you decide to take legal action with respect to tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes. As a 17+ year insider within the tobacco industry, literally forced out in early 1991 after attempting to reform many of these illegal activities from within the industry, the information I am able to provide and actually have already provided should have already recovered several tens of billions of dollars back to multiple tens of states in this country had they but acted upon the information already supplied to them by The Shuster Project. I guess it’s as they say … “the ball is now in your court” … I look forward to hearing back from you… Sincerely, Robb Shuster Executive Director The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues C/o 177 Andrew Avenue Naugatuck, CT 06770-4359 Telephone: 1-(203)-723-1690 Fax: 1-(801)-705-3078 Email: RShus177@aol.com Join my "Save the Rainforest" Team at: http://rainforest.care2.com/welcome?w=226471792
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