U.S. Tobacco Subsidiary Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Cigarettes to Evade Tax

On December 22, 1998, Northern Brands, a subsidiary of U.S. tobacco multinational R.J. Reynolds, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay the U.S. $15 million for its role in a massive smuggling operation that exported cigarettes from Canada and smuggled them back through the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve on the border to evade paying excise taxes... [more]