ATF 'loses' 420 million cigarettes

[green73]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government agents acting without authorization conducted dozens of undercover investigations of illegal tobacco sales, misused some of $162 million in profits from the stings and lost track of at least 420 million cigarettes, the Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday.

In one case, agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sold $15 million in cigarettes and later turned over $4.9 million in profits from the sales to a confidential informant — even though the agency did not properly account for the transaction.

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http://www.my9nj.com/Story/23526553/us-atf-misplaced-420-million-cigarettes-in-stings

[CaseyJones]

ya lost, that's it *lights a cigarette*

[tangent4ronpaul]

Cigarettes or joints?

-t

[phill4paul]

In other news some black ops will be kept off the discretionary spending accounting lists.

[donnay]

"Yeah it fell of da back of da truck."

[Keith and stuff]

So states greatly increase taxes on smokes, leading to much higher prices. So people run black market smokes from NC and NH to NY and MA. So the government creates a war on smokes running. So government workers steal smokes. So the government creates a war on government workers stealing smokes? Nah. Clearly the government has covered the practice up, otherwise, 100s if not 1,000s of government workers would have been arrested, in the least.

Oh well, it is nice to know that the government is use prohibition type tactics to cause major problems that harm the lives of millions of people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5ZRE26YWM