El Presidente Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/4281 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianbeaver Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 ...did just a teensy bit more than stuff a few Cohibas in his blazer jacket and try to slip them past Customs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLC Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Hilarious story. I guess he knows now that the rules do apply to him after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon_cojones Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Blog should read yet another reason to not get married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimmers Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 what a legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigabyte056 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I was on his side until I read a out misappropriation of client funds. Tough break losing the home. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=20.631730,-87.070624 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblevit Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coblos Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 So that 's one way they are bad for you, what was the other way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 So that 's one way they are bad for you, what was the other way? Your bank balance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedGeek Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I'd like to think that when they found the cigars in his truck he pulled a "How did those get there!?" excuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murri Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcheek Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I'll give him an A for effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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