from the United States into Canada. Officer Jonah, a seventeen-year veteran employee of Canadian Customs, explained that the equivalent of approximately one-hundred American dollars would be due and owing on a case of liquor that was purchased in the United States for fifty-six American dollars and imported into Canada. She stated that generally the amount of Canadian tax due is twice the purchase price of the case of liquor in the United States.


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David and Carl Pasquantino were convicted on all six counts of the indictment and sentenced to fifty-seven months' imprisonment on each count, to be served concurrently. Before the case was submitted to the jury, the district court dismissed all but Count I against Arthur Hilts. Hilts was convicted on that count and sentenced to twenty-one months'property at issue in the Defendants' wire fraud scheme belonged to foreign governments by virtue of those governments' respective revenue laws is merely incidental to prosecution under the federal wire fraud statute.


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Moreover, affirming the Defendants' wire fraud convictions and sentences in this case presents no separation of powers problems, the only rationale of the common law revenue rule with jurisdictional underpinnings. Congress enacted the wire fraud statute and the United States Attorney, acting on behalf of the United States as directed by the Executive Branch, made the decision to seek the Defendants' indictment thereunder. Thus, to the extent matters of foreign policy were implicated by prosecution of the Defendants on the wire fraud charges in this case, such matters were passed upon by the only two branches of