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Phrases that make a lengthy NYTimes piece on the conviction of a major pot smuggler worth the read: French Canadian playboy a preppy, Polo-wearing Staten Island gangster Mr. Cournoyer (pronounced koorn-WAH-yay) man-size bales of hydroponically grown pot a martial-arts enthusiast with a taste for fast cars The lesson he learned from prison that time was perhaps not what the authorities intended. a one-legged Québécois crime family of Montreal He ran a lucrative money-laundering business out west, using dirty cash to buy cocaine from the Sinaloa drug cartel while maintaining his sideline as a vendor of high-end hair-care products. a muralist turned house painter turned pot dealer It was basically a Karl Marx kind of thing.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:04:05 +0000

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