Another Way Cigars Are Bad for You

[El Presidente]

http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/4281

[canadianbeaver]

...did just a teensy bit more than stuff a few Cohibas in his blazer jacket and try to slip them past Customs...

[LLC]

Hilarious story. I guess he knows now that the rules do apply to him after all.

[ramon_cojones]

Blog should read yet another reason to not get married.

[Dimmers]

what a legend

[gigabyte056]

This guy bought 46 boxes of Cubans....in Canada???? :surprised:

Might as well just buy your own private jet and fly to Cuba whenever you want to...!

He bought those in Cuba, then brought them in his car which he kept in Canada.

Also falsified a passport application...

you know what they say about lawyers,

They're not all bad,

It's just the 99% who ruin it for the 1% of good ones out there

[Rushman]

I was on his side until I read a out misappropriation of client funds. Tough break losing the home.

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[sblevit]

Some more facts here. This happened many years ago.

Going to Cuba to smuggle cigars seems like the biggest Cuban cigar no no.

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1526758.html

United States Customs officials stopped Connors on April 7, 1996, as he attempted to smuggle 1150 Cuban cigars into the United States from Canada. The officials confiscated the cigars and Connors's passport. Undeterred, Connors continued to travel to Cuba over the next three years on numerous occasions to smuggle cigars into the United States and sell them. In March 1997, local police found Cuban cigars in Connors's home, located at 5443 Suffield Terrace in Skokie, Illinois. The following day, March 15, 1997, Skokie police turned over to U.S. Customs officials the cigars that they found at Connors's home. Connors's escapades continued through 1999, when in late October U.S. Customs officials seized 850 Cuban cigars from Connors's home. A jury convicted Connors of smuggling Cuban cigars into the United States, conspiring to smuggle cigars into the United States, making a false statement on a passport application, and violating the Trading With The Enemy Act, 50 App. U.S.C. §§ 5((1), 16. We have already affirmed Connors's conviction. See Connors, 441 F.3d 527. The question before us now is whether he should also lose his house.

[coblos]

So that 's one way they are bad for you, what was the other way?

[Wil]

So that 's one way they are bad for you, what was the other way?

Your bank balance

[SpeedGeek]

I'd like to think that when they found the cigars in his truck he pulled a "How did those get there!?" excuse.

[Murri]

He bought those in Cuba, then brought them in his car which he kept in Canada.

Also falsified a passport application...

you know what they say about lawyers,

They're not all bad,

It's just the 99% who ruin it for the 1% of good ones out there

Reminds me of a joke a lawyer told me.

1% of lawyers have hemorrhoids, the rest are perfect A-holes.

[kcheek]

I'll give him an A for effort.