In May 2013, federal officials concluded an investigation into a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling operation based in and around the resort area with raids on two locations including the West Ocean City homes of local residents and business owners Basel Ramadan, 43, who has been called the “ringleader,” and Samer Ramadan, 41, who is being called the operation’s “enterprise treasurer.” Also indicted were 14 other alleged co-conspirators, from transporters to distributors to resellers, who were rounded up at locations all over the mid-Atlantic region on the same day as the federal raids in the Ocean City area.
On Friday, Samer Ramadan pleaded guilty to enterprise corruption, the top charge against him and now faces a sentence of two to six years in prison. Sentencing has been set for next Monday, July 7. During the plea on Friday, Samer Ramadan admitted his role in the operation run by his brother, Basel Ramadan, and told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Foley his brother ran the operation.
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Well lets do the math. Millions stolen. Millions hidden. Millions non taxed. Million loaned by our Govt. on foreign grants to this family. 6 years is nothing. This Country is in a major crisis. Hang the bastard. They are involved in major drug activity as well. They have burned Sun Sations for insurance money and the corrupt O.C. Fire Marshall let it slide for how much who knows. WTF I am going Rogue
Throw your brother under the bus when you were his PARTNER in crime.
Priceless
I've known both Basel and Sam since they were kids. I would never have guessed they would haven been involved in this type of activity. Nor would I think their father Shane would be involved....but at this point I'd bet money he is or has been. This is the second time that I became familiar with famiies from the Middle East over the past 20 years and it ended up BOTH were involved with terrorist organizations. None of them ever seemed like criminals/terrorists.....but they were. It's far safer to assume they are than to assume they aren't. They are creeping across our souther borders like crazy. And now more radioactive material as been stolen from Mexico. People you had better get your stuff together. Looks like dirty bombs are gonna be a real concern very soon.Watch with great scrutiny, the behavior of those with middle eastern origins. If anyone thinks I' being racist..go to helll......don't come crying to me when you're vomiting and you have blisters from radiation poisoning
Stop with the "terrorist" BS.
Every time we hear of someone of Middle Eastern descent involved in cigarette smuggling the first thing out of the mouths of officials is they "may" (key word) linked to terrorism then it's not ever mentioned nor are they ever charged with terrorist activities. The public needs to stop being so naïve. If the government mentions terrorism everyone is appeased and no one thinks about the total waste of time and money investigation and prosecuting these smugglers really is. The government bureaucracy created and all the so called task forces cost way more than the tax could ever bring in.
And why PS's in MD are wasting time catching smugglers heading from VA to NY is beyond comprehension. Let NY worry about NY and MD LE worry about MD and crimes affects it's residents.
To 8:51. Different family as well as nationality. Sunsation stores are owned by an Israeli Jewish family. The Ramadams are Palestinian and are Muslims.
All that money was going to Al Quida and Al Nusra. Them damn Moslems need to be in Gitmo.
Well said 9:11am...
They probably have a shrine to Obama in their homes
Has everyone forgotten he threatened witnesses? Just a good guy not a terrorist.
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