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• Cigarette executive sentenced in mail fraud  

Jump to full article: Roanoke (VA) Times & World News, 2009-10-02

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The president of a North Carolina cigarette company was barred from the tobacco industry for a decade as part of a federal sentence that includes a year and a day in prison.

Terence P. McLaughlin, president of CLP Inc. of Ayden, N.C., also agreed to pay about $1 million in past-due federal excise taxes.

McLaughlin was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon. In January, he pleaded guilty to mail fraud and to conspiring to violate federal cigarette laws.

CLP, which makes Bridgeton cigarettes, entered guilty pleas as a corporation to the same charges, as did George Chemali, described in court documents as an agent of the company.

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