U.S. District Court Rejects Defense Challenge to Wire Fraud Laws for Tax Evasion Crimes Involving Smuggling Tobacco and Liquor to Canada

On October 4, 1998, in the case United States v. Miller, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York denied motions brought by 21 defendants charged with smuggling tobacco and liquor products from the U.S. to Canada across the St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation in order to avoid the payment of duties and taxes levied on the importation of tobacco and liquor products by Canada... [more]