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E-mail: Rshus177@aol.com

Re: The Shuster Project -The New Dance Project - formed to directly engage

the tobacco industry by revealing, for the first time ever, non-health

related tobacco company fraud and false claims negatively impacting revenues

and income streams in all 50 states and the federal government.

Location: http://www.RXShuster.org

To: Over 2,690 News Media outlets - Television Stations, Radio Stations,

Newspapers, International Media outlets.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media,

I have over 17 years of experience and intimate knowledge of the tobacco

industry, having been employed by the American Tobacco Company.

In October of 1998, after considerable preparation, I initiated contact to

the IRS through a prestigious law firm expert in tax matters, relative to the

SMALLEST of DOZENS of false claims made by the tobacco companies which span

over four (4) decades.

( see: http://www.rxshuster.org/original.htm   ).

After repeated fax and phone contacts, a Special Agent of the IRS was sent to

one of my Project advisor law firm offices to confirm all of the relevant

facts of this ONE false claim we revealed to them. Upon verification, they

asked that I file Original Information claims to assist in their prosecution

of this information.

( see: http://www.rxshuster.org/federal.htm   ).

This first example involved the tobacco companies not paying income taxes,

FICA, social security, Medicare or employment taxes on moneys realized in

profits through wholesale cigarette price increases relative to tobacco

company representative contingency funds and the "values" of those funds as

the tobacco company representatives were held accountable for.

( see: http://rxshuster.org/contingen.htm   ).

Four (4) specific realities were verified at this meeting...

1.) Going back just 6 years and then approximately 40 years, the negative

financial impact to the IRS and the above mentioned political subdivisions

not receiving payment by the tobacco companies totaled well over $100 million

dollars.

This included estimated interest and penalties but did NOT include civil

penalties for fraud.

2.) That my estimate of $30 million dollars was conservative and, civil

penalties aside, the fraud used by the tobacco companies in filing these

false claims allows the IRS to go back as far as they want to (which can be

over 40 years) which would increase that $100 million dollar loss to the IRS

several times over.

3.) That the information we were supplying to the IRS was new and previously

unknown to the IRS.

4.) That there was NO investigation ongoing or even conceived on this false

claim for, again, the IRS never had a clue OF the existence of this false

claim being made by the tobacco companies.

We filed the Original Information claims, as requested by the IRS, and were

assured that prompt action would be taken by the IRS for the recovery of the

vast sums of moneys referred to above, yet not even 2 months later, the IRS

sent me a "form" letter informing us that they were mysteriously, yet

emphatically, NOT going to take the simple measures to recover hundreds of

millions of dollars in lost and defrauded funds.

( see: http://rxshuster.org/irsresponse.htm   ).

Although there are dozens upon dozens of NEVER previously revealed false

claims and even more fraudulent tobacco company policies, practices and

procedures with significantly HIGHER negative financial impacts to the states

and some even affecting municipalities, I felt it prudent to release just the

SMALLEST one affecting the IRS to be certain that they would address the

Original Information filings assertively, aggressively and in a timely manner.

The betrayal by the IRS to the American taxpayer to just walk away from

hundreds of millions of defrauded dollars is unacceptable.

This betrayal by the IRS has influenced me to roll out The Shuster Project

about 6 weeks earlier than planned, for the 50 states and thousands of

businesses are also being tremendously impacted financially by fraudulent

tobacco company policies, practices and procedures, not to mention false

claims.

I want to give our Senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen the opportunity

to see the validity of MY dealings with the IRS for themselves, to see the

betrayal by the IRS to the American taxpayers relative to the hundreds of

millions of dollars the IRS is choosing to walk away from, and I want to give

the Senators and Congresspersons the opportunity to reinstate those Original

Information filings and reactivate the investigation and to recover those

hundreds of millions of dollars for the American taxpayers, because there are

more numerous false claims yet to be revealed.

In a separate action I have initiated, due to the IRS betrayal of the

Original Information filings, I have notified the Attorneys General of 42 of

the 50 states that there are false claims made by the tobacco companies that

negatively impact them, as well.

( see: http://www.rxshuster.org/forthe1.htm   ).

This should be enough information for now to pique the interest of the media

to the fact that NON-health related tobacco industry issues involving

fraudulent policies, practices and procedures and false claims made by the

tobacco industry carry a price tag of lost tax revenues and income streams to

both the federal and state governments and, to a smaller degree, even

municipalities, to the tune of a conservatively estimated $35-$50 Billion

dollars.

I have established a Media page on my site for those media outlets I was not

able to obtain due to the accelerated introduction of The Shuster Project. As

I intend to update RXShuster.org on a regular basis of every 10 to 14 days,

responses allowing, I would ask that you all "re-sign" your newsroom and/or

editorial contact email addresses there so that I can notify you of any and

all updates and new press releases as they are made available to you.

As the scope of the fraud and false claims that exist in the tobacco industry

are considerable, I would ask you to understand that I will not reveal all of

them immediately, as investigations can be jeopardized and prosecutions

affected.

I have made available on RXShuster.org specific examples of a federal issue,

a state issue, a business issue and a municipal issue.

More will be forthcoming and, as I establish a dialogue with the media over a

short period of time, an incredible array of information will be made

available to you.

Thank You for this opportunity to address you and please utilize the

mechanisms I have provided for you on my site to contact me so that I can

keep in contact with you.

Sincerely,

Robert X. Shuster