New York City to Sue FedEx for Delivering Cigarettes to Homes

One of Bloomberg's last acts as a horrible nanny

New York City has sued FedEx Corp, accusing the package delivery company of illegally delivering millions of contraband cigarettes to people's homes, violating a 2006 settlement.

Monday's lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan and seeks $52 million of civil fines and unpaid taxes from FedEx, which is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

It marks one of the last acts by the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose more than decade-old campaign to ban smoking in various public and private places has been credited with saving thousands of lives and become a blueprint for other cities.

According to the city, FedEx created a "public nuisance" through its partnership with Shinnecock Smoke Shop, located on the Shinnecock Indian Nation reservation in Southampton, New York, to ship untaxed cigarettes to residential homes.

Comments

[LilDebbie]

Dear G-d,

Is it too much to ask for you to shove a spine into the FedEx board of directors and have them boycott all deliveries to New York City? Likewise Google IP-blocking the nation of France from Youtube? Put it to the voters and non-voters alike: who do you love more, Big Brother or Netflix?

xoxo,
LilDebbie

[John Galt]

Spines have been extinct since the late 1950s. Subservience to tyrants is all the rage these days.

[SueNichollsera]

my roomate's half-sister makes 74 dollars an hour on the laptop. She has been without a job for 7 months but last month her check was 19922 dollars just working on the laptop for a few hours. published here

http://www.tec30.com

[MSimon]

I would think she could find a more comfortable place to do her whoring. Like on a bed.

[AlgerHiss]

And once again, if you willingly reside in NYC, you are a piece of human debris. The sane world finds you disgusting.

[JPyrate]

Using Gibberellic Acid to force grow illegal tobacco, and then sell it to Native American reservations, who then sell it to NYC residents where it is illegal makes my dick hard. Just saying.

[ianthefish]

Bloomberg is an authoritarian twat. I hope he trips and eats a ton of shit on his way out of the office.