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• MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND CORPORATION COUNSEL CARDOZO SUE TO STOP ILLEGAL CIGARETTE SALES AT EIGHT LONG ISLAND INDIAN SMOKE SHOPS  

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Corporation Counsel Michael A. Cardozo announced today that the City of New York filed a complaint in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York against eight Long Island businesses located on the Poospatuck Indian reservation in Mastic, Long Island, for illegally selling massive quantities of cigarettes on which State and City taxes have not been paid, in violation of the Federal Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act and State law. . . .

The 18 defendants are located on the Poospatuck Indian Reservation ( also called the Unkechauge Indian Reservation ) are:

• Golden Feather Smoke Shop, Inc., Mastic, NY and Brooklyn, NY

• Kimo Smoke Shop, Inc., Mastic, NY and Lake Ronkonkoma, NY

• Smoke and Rolls, Inc Mastic, NY

• Shawn Morrison Owner/operator of Golden Feather, Smoke & Rolls and Kimo

• Kiana Morrison Owner/operator of Golden Feather, Smoke & Rolls and Kimo

• Monique’s Smoke Shop Mastic, NY

• Jessey Watkins Owner/operator of Monique’s Smoke Shop

• Ernestine Watkins Owner/operator of Monique’s Smoke Shop

• Wayne Harris Owner/operator of Monique’s Smoke Shop

• Peace Pipe Smoke Shop Mastic, NY

• Rodney Morrison, Sr. Owner/Operator of Peace Pipe

• Charlotte Morrison Owner/Operator of Peace Pipe

• Red Dot & Feather Smoke Shop, Inc. Mastic, NY

• Raymond Hart Owner/Operator of Red Dot

• Smoking Arrow Smoke Shop Mastic, NY

• Denise Paschall Owner/Operator of Smoking Arrow

• Tony D. Phillips Operator of Smoking Arrow

• TDM, Inc. Mastic, NY

• Thomasina Mack Owner/Operator of TDM

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