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At the Ramadans’ West Ocean City homes in the Oyster Harbor community, $1.4 million in large black bags was recovered, along with 20,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes. On Friday, Samer Ramadan pleaded guilty to enterprise corruption, the top charge against him and now faces a sentence of two to six years in prison. Sentencing has been set for next Monday, July 7. Late last week, 16 members of an alleged “criminal ring” — including brothers Basel Ramadan, 42, and Samir Ramadan 40, both of Ocean City, Md. — were indicted in New York, with a total of 244 charges related to enterprise corruption, money laundering and related tax crimes. (Aug. 30, 2019) Two Ocean City men who distributed more than $1.25 million worth of untaxed cigarettes were sentenced to prison on Monday in New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Basel Ramadan, 47, and Samir Ramadan, 45, were previously convicted of similar cigarette smuggling scheme, but were indicted again on similar charges. During the course of the takedown, authorities seized three handguns, one shotgun, three vehicles, and more than $312,000 in cash from the Ramadans’ home in Maryland, as well as more than 341,000 untaxed cigarettes from a storage location in Brooklyn. Basel and Samir Ramadan's home in West Ocean City was raided last October. Prosecutors said the brothers and a co-conspirator sold untaxed cigarettes from Virginia in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mohammad “Mike” Salah Ramadan, 31, is the younger brother to Basel Ramadan, 42, and Samir Ramadan, 39, both of West Ocean City. The two older brothers have been indicted with serious tax evasion charges in New York stemming from an operation that moved thousands of cartons of cheap Virginia-bought cigarettes into New York City. During the raids at the Ramadans’ West Ocean City homes last October, federal, state and local authorities seized three handguns, one shotgun, three vehicles and over $312,000 in cash. President at GCBW, INC. DBA/ GOLD COAST BEER WINE LIQUOR · Experience: LUX QOZP PROPERTIES · Location: Ocean City · 74 connections on LinkedIn. View Mike Ramadan’s profile on LinkedIn, a In mid-May, federal officials concluded an investigation into a vast, multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling operation with raids on two locations in and around the Ocean City area including the West Ocean City homes of local residents and business owners Basel Ramadan, 42, who has been called the operation’s “ringleader,” and Samer Mike Ramadan, owner of the 21 st Street building, designed the site plan to be compliant with employee housing standards in case he want to convert the property to employee housing in the future. But it isn’t explicitly employee housing yet, he said. Pictured is a sign advertising the future housing on 21 st Street. HUNTER HINE / OCEAN CITY TODAY The concerted effort by Ocean City and its community to improve housing for seasonal student workers reflects a shared commitment to ensuring that the backbone of the town's tourist industry is well supported. With the help of Ocean City and OCDC, businesses are hopeful that the lack of student workforce housing will soon be a problem of the past. In mid-May, federal officials concluded an investigation into a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling operation with raids on two locations in and around the resort area including the West Ocean City homes of local residents and business owners Basel Ramadan, 42, who has been called the “ringleader” of the operation, and Samer Ramadan OCEAN CITY — One of two local residents, indicted by a New York grand jury in May for allegedly being the “enterprise treasurer” for a vast money laundering operation with possible links to ally lanasa/ocean city today The license transfer request was for a Class A Beer, Wine and Liquor seven-day license from 11401-A Coastal Highway to 11531 Coastal Highway. Ramadan said he would have the same landlord if the transfer was approved. The former Phillips Crab House and Union Chesapeake Seafood House property sits vacant in downtown Ocean City on Philadelphia Avenue and 21st Street. Union Chesapeake took over and operated the restaurant last season after Phillips closed it down, but it closed again in September after a fire and the new owners have run into snags trying to
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