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Former Knox school board chair says he trusted Armstrong to pay taxes on cigarette-stamp deal
Knoxville News Sentinel The tax was levied via stamps required to be placed on every pack sold in Tennessee. Only tobacco wholesalers could buy the stamps from the state Department of Revenue, but no law bars wholesalers from cutting deals with "investors" to help finance … More details of alleged tax scheme come out in State Rep. Joe Armstrong's federal trial Witnesses: Middleman helped Rep. Armstrong earn untaxed windfall Prosecutors: State lawmaker planned to profit from tax hike |
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