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Willoughby Farr: Jailed Palm Beach County man makes millions while locked up
Willoughby Farr went into the Palm Beach County Jail in October 2003 and became a multimillionaire behind bars. It's doubtful he will be able to perform the same remarkable feat during his next stint in the lockup — a 21-year federal prison sentence handed down on Thursday for bilking telephone...
Jail inmate makes millions behind bars; gets 21-year prison sentence for phone scam
Willoughby Farr went into the Palm Beach County Jail in October 2003 and became a multimillionaire behind bars. It's doubtful he will be able to perform the same remarkable feat during his next stint in the lockup — a 21-year federal prison sentence handed down on Thursday for bilking telephone...
CORRAO: Getting the drop on cough medicine
FDA nannies are putting routine remedies in the cross...
Owens-Illinois spent $295K in lobbying during 2Q
, 09.02.10, 03:41 PM EDT NEW YORK -- Glass maker Owens-Illinois Inc. spent $295,000 in the second quarter as it lobbied Congress on environmental issues, along with energy and taxation legislation.
Illinois Tool Works spent $200,000 lobbying in 2Q
, 09.02.10, 03:48 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- Industrial equipment maker Illinois Tool Works Inc. spent $200,000 in the second quarter to lobby Congress on trade policy for manufacturing, intellectual property rights and other topics, according to a recent disclosure...
General Tobacco Plans to Shut Down
General Tobacco, a maker of low-priced cigarettes that became the sixth-largest U.S. tobacco company during the last decade, plans to shut down after failing to make payments it owed to states under a massive industry...
Research and Markets: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its...
09.02.10, 12:41 PM EDT BusinessWire - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/resea rch/1c6600/all_other_miscella) has announced the addition of Supplier Relations US, LLC's new report "All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing Industry in the...
Burger King Is A Whopper Of A Deal For 3G Capital
Shares of the fast-food chain soar after news of the $24 per share buyout by 3G worth $4...
Edward Flattau: Cinema Smoke Screen
Through most of the 20th Century, movies with characters puffing away on cigarettes helped make smoking a popular, and in some circles, necessary status...
HP Raises The Bar For 3Par, Stocks Creep Higher
Wall Street made a narrow morning advance on more news from the tech sector bidding war, a Burger King takeover and Bernanke...
Should the Federal Government Try to Curb Obesity?
09.02.10, 10:03 AM EDT TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The First Lady and the Surgeon General are trying to rally Americans to fight against the "epidemic" of...
Smokefree Innotec Products to Be Exhibited to 12 Countries at Conway Autumn Fair in Europe
09.02.10, 09:00 AM EDT BusinessWire - Smokefree Innotec, Inc. (Pinksheets:SFIO) Thomas Schroepfer, CEO, (http://www.sfio.us or http://www.
Watch Out, 'The Jersey Shore;' There's a New Celebrity 'Creeping' into the Eastern Seaboard
09.02.10, 08:06 AM EDT MEMPHIS, Tenn. and PENNSAUKEN, NJ., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Frontier Beverage Co. (OTC Bulletin Board: FBEC) has announced its partnership with Pennsauken,...
The Pantry Agrees to Acquire 47 Stores
09.02.10, 07:03 AM EDT BusinessWire - The Pantry, Inc. (Nasdaq:PTRY), the leading independently operated convenience store chain in the southeastern...
Battle heats up over e-cigarettes
FDA, others want to see devices...
Indians on warpath at cig tax
Where there's smokes, there's ire...
Electronic cigarettes attracting ‘smokers’
But FDA says product should be...
Italian Town Bets Budget on Lottery to Raise Revenue, Cut Taxes
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- A southern Italian town is betting part of its budget on weekly lottery tickets, arguing that the strategy is no more a crapshoot than investing on Wall...
Court Blocks New York Tax on Tribal Cigarette Sales
A state law to tax cigarettes sold by Indian tribes in New York had barely gotten off the ground on Wednesday when a state appellate court judge brought it to a halt, blocking an effort that...