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.N~. •: -. .% . City :efforts" ~oat ~e,, g Czgare;~tes Is~O~p~©s~~a ngress sfrwing' - to tong sYud~ o! t~tgarette boot- ~?' S.e~ii:~' •.- ad~ourn'X}text , atantfr . and in legging; AA ~f.eglslaGioti;soccg~it by NQrk viaw; „ the te~stn~Y, .taday ~he •,comtnrssion estimate=d State to make the boc~tle~gang' befor~the ' ficiary that the ftow of cigarettes fro of • ragaret~tes a Federal rrime ynrttee headed ' by Representa- North ;'Carolina;; which', has a was reqected • todax; ;as. "~rre- tivo l+et~er v6r. . Rodino, Demo• state Y~ax of ' 2cent's. a pack; taature:"• by the Justiqe PepaA- crat of r!tew Jersey, it"appeared''nto , New Y~ork', State, which tnent~ %:' ~~ `~" r'"'that the bill. sout bY .~ew has a tax. of 1'5.eents a pack,. TpSt~ying be,fore t a° House York was dead or the neac cost IVew.Yor`k State and New judiciary subeommittee> 'Harold future ~t York City $384-million, in un- Shapiro, a dbputyy~'assistant at= collectedi excise and sales taxes , between. 1966_an fJ 19. ', ~f„' ; torney general;; said the Justice •~a' ~ght Ear~ie ~~eaa ~ ~~ be+partment ~{anted to"'await ''guch` a lawr :'to'~rAibit-tfie ,~auI J.'~urran, cFiaixmai! nf the aresults of intensified transpo&tion' ot`contraband the .'commissuqn,; said at ;the effort~;by,Xesv York and' other cigarettes " in ~-. interstafie 'cpm- h,earing' _today~,xhat ' tS~ere ; vra:s states to~'ourb; the, fl'o)y of •cig= mereb;with a maximum penalty, an ?~trgent Peed" to: put i;the arette5 ' 'fro~m Tbw ta3¢ - states ai`, a$ib,U00 fine antl two yearsf' aontrol of th'e :;iliegal fiow ;.of "'before introducTng the F$deral jntprison ent was urged'. ~arlier ~garettes iznd'er •the, responsi- Government' into '*hat a~has $ s.yea~ by,; the "New': Vork bility 'cif Federal 'Iaw enfarce I heretofore' been' "~ ftate' `s~rea ~~ate ~otrimission'of Investiga- meat''peisonnel, ,-ratlier than, of responsibility." <r ., k tifln," which conducted a' ear- jeake;the'prablem td state and' °` ocalt''officiats with their dif- fering "jurisdiGtions. .f~ - Mr. t;urran` read .the subcnm= tnittee a statementbX Governor Rockefeller that said the pro- posed posed Federal lavtir • would be "a timely solution to a serious organized criine,:'problem" Mr. Shapira;•sppaking for tlie ;Justice IIepartn',rent, notedj tbat' "IVtr.,Gu`rran't'otltnn4issioii'had~ found that 1'QgW,T~~grlc:•$tate-ani} wise." Mr. Shapiro said that justt last week the° .Pustice Depart- ment's Law ' Fnforeement As- sistance ; Administration ' ; had awarded ia,, grant of $285,552 to establish in the; New York City Police Department a spe- ciad investigative unit "exclu, rsively devoted toward eliminat- mg organized criminal activi- ties associated with cigarette bootlegging operation4'' be unr, 7rent~priori'ty, -wou1'd!~' give this'problem .laenforce- state"s admission of: failure j¢ Iegislation; °wi tk~onths of A t iteel that' enad en~ of' Federal (7 rb t e iiootF g3 "had' tieen' a , ded Yt'Fiati' "_taV;e failure:'; 'l~e ; prob leggirig