Petition #17
Tobacco Industry Fraud
That Exceeds Enron And WorldCom!
posted October
14, 2002, by Robert Shuster
Theme : Public
Forum | Scope : National
Send-out date : November 13, 2002
Recipients :
Joan B. Taf, Borough Mayor,
Naugatuck
George W. Bush,
President, United States of America
John G. Rowland,
Governor, CT
Since May 14, 1999, "The
Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues" web site has been
addressing significant corporate fraud, as has never been done before, that's costing
consumers and taxpayers multiple Billions of dollars in Municipal, State and Federal
income tax revenues, states' sales tax revenues and municipal services.
A
"Conspiracy of Silence, Distortion and Avoidance" continues by both the state
and federal governments, despite all CT state senators and house representatives and all
federal Congresspersons and Senators receiving seven (7) Press Releases (example:
http://www.rxshuster.org/press_release_.htm) and several "Special Alerts" which
conservatively addressed the huge sums of state and federal revenues and states' sales
taxes being defrauded.
The
fact remains that absolutely none of these representatives bothered to investigate these
crimes or even try to recover these vast sums of defrauded taxes and consumer dollars.
Recognizing
the need for legislative action and specific legal address towards these crimes, The
Shuster Project was directly responsible for the passage of the first "False
Claims" law in CT that specifically allowed for the state of CT to begin the recovery
of these huge amounts of defrauded income tax and sales tax revenues - HB5602
(http://www.rxshuster.org/hb5602.htm) - which ultimately became HB6942 - An Act Concerning
the CT False Claims Act - (http://www.rxshuster.org/6942.htm).
This
Bill has yet to be used in connection with the recovery of in excess of $300+ Million
Dollars (grossly conservative) in defrauded CT state income tax and state sales tax
revenues; that figure not including the lost "value" of multiple hundreds of
millions of dollars in municipal "services," specifically trash hauling services
(http://www.rxshuster.org/municipa.htm), which also detrimentally affects each and every
state in this country.
"Candidate-for-President,"
then President Bush was equally appraised by The Shuster Project staff of these corporate
tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes, yet he chose to do nothing and/or say
anything about them whilst he stumped for President nor has he since addressed these
significant tobacco industry crimes, despite his meager corporate crimes crusade.
In
September of 2000, StudyWeb.com bestowed upon The Shuster Project it's Academic Excellence
Award, making our web content applicable in school curriculum for Grades 12+ in the
Subjects of History and Social Studies in and for the topics of Criminal Justice and White
Collar Crimes, recognizing these issues to be relevant, important, credible and
significant enough to be taught in classrooms all across America.
Also,
on May 19th, 2002, The Shuster Project and our web site received The Golden Web Award from
the International Association of Webmasters and Designers - (IAWMD) - "In recognition
of Creativity, Integrity and Excellence on the Web."
So
why aren't these tobacco industry fraud and false claims crimes relevant enough, important
enough or significant enough for our elected and appointed officials to act upon in order
that these multiple billions of defrauded tax revenue and income tax dollars be recovered
by them??
The
Shuster Project web site is authored by a 17+ year insider within the tobacco industry.
By
signing this Petition and forwarding it thru your e-mail lists, you are asking your
respective municipal leaders, state's governors, state's representatives and federal
representatives to address these significant tobacco industry fraud and false claims
crimes by openly investigating them and forcefully acting to recover the multiple billions
of dollars defrauded by these crimes, otherwise it is going to take even longer than it
has already for these municipal, state and federal officials to act, as whatever fear of
the tobacco company's they may have does not justify these crimes to continue as they are.
Thank
you.
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