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• 9 sentenced in multistate tobacco ring 

Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2008-12-03

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Prosecutors say nine people have been sentenced in a black-market tobacco ring in Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and North Carolina involving more than $4.5 million.

The U.S. attorney's office in Nashville said in a statement Wednesday that the last defendant, Ronald D. Bowen of Ayden, N.C., was sentenced to 51 months in prison by a federal judge. He and co-defendant Christopher L. Sutton were found guilty of conspiring to transfer more than $4.5 million in cash to avoid federal reporting requirements. Sutton, who owned two tobacco companies in North Carolina, was sentenced on Nov. 12 to 60 months in prison.

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