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Last month Leap's agents were able to place an order for 10 million pills at $15 a thousand (they cost 56? a thousand to make). Next, the D-men raided an outfit aptly named Fixaco Inc., operating out of a motel in Imperial, Mo., where they said they found 650,000 bennies. The agents made six arrests, including John R. Kauffmann, operator of the motel and of Fixaco, who was charged with having made two illegal sales. He and the other five all pleaded not guilty...
Where had this cache come from? BDAC agents traced a Fixaco shipment eastward to a New York City pier where it was marked for legal export to Hong Kong. U.S. Customs men opened the two drums. Instead of a million bennies, they found nothing more incriminating than concrete and stuffing, topped with a thin layer of pills. After two more arrests were made in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Irvin L. Ruzicka indicated that one way for bennies to get into the domestic black market is by simple diversion from the perfectly legal export trade...
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