{Louisville, Kentucky}...Thursday, a federal grand jury in Louisville indicted 42 year old Pedro "Peter" Bello of Miami, his sister, Caridad Bello, and her husband, Juan Hernandez, both of St. Louis, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors say they used phony invoices written by GT Northeast in Missouri to avoid paying Kentucky taxes on $12 million worth of cigarettes sold in several states. If convicted, prosecutors want Bello to forfeit $2 million. Federal investigators had been tracking Pedro Bello since at least 2002. He was named in a civil lawsuit brought by the city of New York over untaxed cigarettes. A federal grand jury in Louisville initially charged him in October 2011, but re-indicted him Thursday.
