Word: contrabanding
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...assume that the status a man has in prison depends upon his status or rank as a criminal. It doesn't. The fact that James Earl Ray was a small-time criminal didn't keep him from becoming a "Merchant" [prison term for one who deals in contraband] in Jeff City ... [He] understood prison life, and he knew how to operate with "Big Shots," guards and other prisoners...
...Vending machine companies, restaurants and motels controlled by the Mafia can be easily persuaded to retail the cigarettes. The seven states and New York City are hoping for a $750,000 federal grant to help them combat the crime, but they know it won't be easy. Contraband cigarettes are even sold occasionally in Harrisburg's North Office Building, headquarters of the Pennsylvania state revenue department...
...into believing that they could beat him if he gave away 19 points and sat in a chair. If the money was right, Reisman would even play with a garbage-can lid. After being approached by a Chinese smuggler during a Far Eastern tour, the kid padded himself with contraband gold, then ferried it across international borders...
...night it became a smuggler's paradise: signal lamps flickered, whistles sounded and high-power motorboats, guided by shadowy figures with walkie-talkies, roared in from the sea. When they touched shore, a human conveyor belt hustled the contraband out of the boats and into waiting trucks or rail cars...
...number of people overall who are involved in smuggling, down to ped dling the contraband, probably runs into the tens of thousands. But the government hopes to break the back of the racket by taking the gang bosses out of circulation. Said Prime Minister Gandhi last week: "Nobody, however big and influential, will be spared if he is found involved in smuggling or hoarding...