Investigators also contend that Mr. Delancey and others generated phony payrolls, paid workers reduced wages in cash and laundered profits from the scheme through a company in Passaic, N.J., named Central Cleaners, which prosecutors say was in fact a licensed check-cashing store and money order distributor and not a dry cleaner.
Both companies are putting a new spin on a model made famous by Omaha Steaks, the meat packer and mail order distributor founded over 100 years ago, which is now pulls in $450 million in revenue a year.
"I understand there are financial considerations, but you would think there could be some way an audience could be nurtured without having to sell a million units," said Milos Stehlik, director of Facets Video, one of the biggest video mail order distributors.
The methods involved -- threats of legal action, agreements with bottlers not to do business with suspected transshippers and "blacklists" that order distributors not to sell Coke to particular companies -- violate foreign fair-trade laws and American antitrust statutes, said the lawyer, William A. Wineberg.
The local D.I.Y. label, studio, and mail-order distributor Olive Juice Music, which sprung to life late last century, meets these kinds of needs for countless two-job-holding singer-songwriters and rockers.
Year-end "best" lists are sprouting, but few shuffle the deck like the annual collection of bests put together by Facets Video, a Chicago chain and mail-order distributor 800-331-6197 800-331-6197 800-331-6197
"Studios are good at putting out DVD's, but they have so much it could take years for stuff that goes off the VHS market to come back on in DVD," said Irv Slifkin of Movies Unlimited, a Philadelphia mail-order distributor.
"Mechanical typewriters are pretty much a dead issue," said Jack Miller, president of Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire, Ill., the nation's largest mail-order distributor of office products.
She made the covers plain for adults, but to add a fun touch for children, "I came up with this idea of an imaginary planet with these characters". Manchester went door to door to orthopedists and hospitals with the covers and eventually got a mail-order distributor.
"That's the key when any new item is made available: Can this be altered and become a threat to security?" Certainly, mail-order distributors to the market have to take extra precautions.
Contact the insurer to see if it has a preferred pharmacy network, and ask if a mail order drug distributor might offer savings.
