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Former KY Lawmaker, 2 Other Prominent Businessmen Heading to Prison
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| Last Edited | RBH Sep 18, 2010 02:38pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, August 2, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former Kentucky state lawmaker Hoby Anderson and two other eastern Kentucky businessmen are heading to federal prison after pleading guilty to charges relating to the sale of contraband cigarettes.
In a federal court case unsealed late Friday afternoon, Anderson, Corky Salyer, owner of Fitness World in Raceland, and David Lambert, the co-owner of Discount Wholesale Importers with Anderson between 2002 and 2005, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy that involved the sale of illegal cigarettes to an undercover informant. The pleas were signed late last year, but accepted in federal court in Covington Thursday.
On separate occasions in 2002 and 2003, Anderson, Lambert and Salyer sold more than 60,000 cigarettes to a person they knew was going to resell the cigarettes without paying a state excise tax. In 2003, they began negotiating to buy stolen cigarettes from the confidential informant. According to the plea agreement, the three believed the informant got the cigarettes from a Cuban-American criminal organization operating in Miami, Florida.
Anderson and Salyer pleaded guilty to four counts, including conspiracy to distribute contraband cigarettes, conspiracy to transport in interstate commerce, conspiracy to sell and dispose of stolen goods across state lines and money laundering. Salyer pleaded guilty to an additional count involving the distribution of a controlled substance, anabolic steroids. |
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