The cuffs are coming out. Working together, state and federal authorities have brought the hammer down on a “big non-cigarette tobacco ring” that allegedly skipped out on $35 million in California excise taxes. The investigation took three years and resulted in 15 arrests, not to mention the indictments of three businesses, according to LA Weekly.
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It’s really not a big deal, but Zsa Zsa Gabor’s eighth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, has dropped out of the race for the big seat in Sacramento. The Los Angeles socialite cites the need to care for his hospitalized 93-year-old wife. Von Anhalt announced his candidacy for governor of California in February ad was [...]
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The 3rd Annual Wounded Warrior Charity Golf Classic will take place at El Camino Country Club on August 30, 2010. The event lasts from 1 PM to 6 PM in Oceanside California, and the $125 registration fee includes golf, cart, lunch, dinner, beer and cigars. The event is being held by The Cigar Grotto and [...]
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Going to be in Orange County, California this afternoon? Check out a collection of old Corvettes while puffing on a cigar outside Vintage Cigar Lounge in Santa Ana. The event runs from 5 PM to 8 PM and is intended to bring together cars and cigars for a unique occasion. Says John Dade, who owns [...]
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Camacho has harnessed a bit of star power. At a recent event at Art of Elysium in Hollywood, California, Elijah Wood showed up to lend a hand. via Camacho blog
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Are you going to be in Carlsbad, California on June 24, 2010? If so, be sure to check out the Patriotic Cigar Social at Hennessy’s Carlsbad. For $21.95, you’ll receive a cigar from “The Cigar Grotto,” appetizers, BBQ ribs, corn on the cob and other food. Wash it down with a pint of Samuel Adams, [...]
When you hear that California’s cutting its cigar taxes, you have to figure that something’s wrong in the world. It just doesn’t happen there. Instead of looking for a tear in the space-time continuum or digging around for a strange man pulling levers behind a curtain, you need to do the math to grasp California’s [...]
California’s surtax on Other Tobacco Products, which includes cigars, is about to fall. On July 1, 2010, the state’s Board of Equalization’s decision to lower the tax from 41.11 percent to 33.02 percent will take effect. The BOE evaluates California’s sales taxes every year to make sure they are “fair and uniform,” according to Cigar [...]
The mid-term elections are less than six months away, an opportunity for cigar-smoking Americans to make the decisions that will either protect outrights or hasten their demise. From 2007 through 2009, we learned what can happen to our freedom to smoke cigars, as draconian legislation was enacted that hurt small businesses – even in the [...]
The Cigar Rights of America has had its hands full since inception, running around the country in an effort to protect our rights in all 50 states. While the battle rages on her in New York – and in many other places – we’re happy to report two victories. One’s in California, and the other’s [...]
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