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...anything else are openly flouted. For years Gavin Zheng, 32, was part of a thriving liquor-smuggling operation in the city. One of his special skills was relabeling cheap French red vins de table as upmarket brands. Customs knew just what he was up to: it oversaw the whole scam and took a cut. "No one got caught," says Zheng. His gang would transport Hennessy or Bordeaux from Hong Kong to the border at Lo Wu, whisk them through the state-run duty free store, and wheel half of the consignment straight into the city without paying the mandatory...
...rest of the summer's offerings. [Interesting sidebar: Burton has rumored to have forced those involved with Planet to sign non-disclosure agreements up the wazoo and filmed five alternate endings to the film to ensure that it's ending is kept a secret. Creative control or hype-inducing scam? You decide...
...several Arkansas men and a Texas pair who wanted a pardon for a family member, was scheduled to appear Friday before White's other grand jury in the investigation, in White Plains, New York. It's unclear whether he will. Two other men who were involved in the alleged scam, in which the Texans were out more than $200,000, have taken the Fifth in response to subpoenas from White's office, sources tell TIME...
Programming problems are to blame for a deluge of emails to Harvard students from the website www.12dateme.com over the past week, and it is not the scam that some students expected...
Nigerian police have arrested dozens of people involved in various incarnations of the scheme, and Secret Service agents have been stationed in Nigeria at the U.S. Embassy to help combat the scam...