AMEXPAT (EN)Information for Americans exploring expatriation. No fees or personal sign-up required.What Are They Smoking at the Justice Department- April 17, 2003 Robert A. Levy is senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute . In this article , he details the corrupt history of prosecution of Big Tobacco under the infamous RICO statute, a bill of goods originally promoted as the means to bring down Organized Crime. Like other such bait-and-switch laws, RICO is now cynically re-deployed to enrich government coffers. Ten months after tobacco companies and 46 state attorneys general settled their differences for a skimpy $250 billion,..http://www.amexpat.com/display_0035_en_rss.html |