Florida Man Indicted In Louisville

• {Kentucky}...A tobacco distributor closely watched by federal agents for a decade has been charged in Kentucky with using phony invoices to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars' worth of cigarettes that he sold in several states. A federal grand jury in Louisville has indicted 41 year old Pedro "Peter" Bello of Miami, Florida, on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Bello, who ran tobacco wholesaler Louisville-based GT Northeast, has been charged with conspiracy to avoid paying more than $2 million in cigarette taxes in Kentucky. Bello has been linked to other investigations and is also a defendant in a civil suit brought by the city of New York over untaxed cigarettes. He is scheduled for arraignment October 18th in Louisville.