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Isn't there a world famous rap letter writing world winning Orchid grower...?

 

The Cash Kings 2012: Hip-Hop's Top 20 Earners

1. Dr. Dre - $110 million.

2. Diddy - $45 million.

3. Jay-Z - $38 million.

4. Kanye West - $35 million.

5. Lil Wayne - $27 million.

6. Drake - $20.5 million.

7. Birdman - $20 million.

8. Nicki Minaj - $15.5 million.

9. Eminem - $15 million.

10. Ludacris - $12 million.

11. Pitbull - $9.5 million.

12. Rick Ross - $9 million. (tie)

12. Wiz Khalifa - $9 million. (tie)

14. Snoop Dogg - $8.5 million.

15. 50 Cent - $7.5 million.

16. Swizz Beatz - $7 million. (tie)

16. Pharrell Williams - $7 million. (tie)

16. Young Jeezy - $7 million. (tie)

17. Mac Miller - $6.5 million.

20. Akon - $6 million. (tie)

20. Timbaland - $6 million. (tie)

20. Tech N9ne - $6 million. (tie)

 

How our chief executives compare (2011 wages):

Michael Yeager, BHP, $6.1 million

Frank Lowy, Westfield. $15.9 million

Nicholas Moore, Macquarie Bank, $8.6 million

Gail Kelly, Westpac, $9.8 million

Mike Smith, ANZ, $10 million

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Ive been in the flower game for a minute, the tulip history is an interesting one but if you want to know about some wild shit look into the orchid trade, and CITES regulation. Read/look into orchid fever, great book.

 

Criminal prosecutions of CITES-related violations: USFWS investigations of CITES violations resulted in criminal prosecutions for illegal trafficking in CITES-listed species. Key cases from 2009and 2010 are summarized below:

 

 

A Cayman Islands corporation that pleaded guilty to illegally importing some 29 items made from protected species (including elephant ivory and leopard, tiger, and jaguar skins) was ordered to pay a 50,000 USD fine and 100,000 USD in restitution.

 

An Atlanta, Georgia, piano company pleaded guilty to one felony count of smuggling elephant ivory into the United States in a case where keys had been removed from multiple instruments and concealed in shipping crates.

 

 

A Honduran national pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from his role in a large-scale queen conch meat trafficking operation; the man admitted harvesting some 115,000 pounds of queen conch for eventual export to the United States, circumventing a CITES embargo that was then in place.

 

A Michigan man pleaded guilty to CITES violations for buying thousands of CITES-listedbutterflies after being warned that his transactions were illegal. He forfeited some 18,000 USD worth of specimens and was ordered to pay a 15,000USD fine and 5,000 USD in restitution.

 

sauce http://www.fws.gov/international/pdf/biennial-report-us-cites-2009-2010.pdf

CITES SERIOUS BUSINESS

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