The room was filled to the brim with cigarettes and booze, but state Comptroller Peter Franchot wasn't about to give any freebies away to the cameramen, photographers and reporters who showed up at his press conference.
On Tuesday, Mr. Franchot was announcing the total of illegal goods seized by his office this past year. All in all, it was a good haul - more than 50,000 packs of cigarettes and almost $175,000 of alcohol products. But he wasn't about...
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