United States v. Boots

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this consolidated appeal, defendants-appellants Francis Boots, Ellwyn Cook, and Dewey Lazore challenge their convictions for conspiracy, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, to commit three offenses, and their convictions of the substantive offenses: 1) to devise a scheme or artifice using the wires in interstate commerce with intent to defraud Cana da and the Province of Nova Scotia of excise duties and tax revenues, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343; 2) to devise a scheme or artifice to deprive the residents of the Passa-maquoddy Reservation in Maine of…