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   All I can say is:   hahahahahaha !!   
      
   This is the same CRA that doesn't care WHAT the illegal activity might be -   
   prostitution,   
   drugs, or smuggling - as long as THEY get their proper tax share of the   
   profits?  This very   
   notorious street gang and criminal organization just stuck the CRA in the eye   
   with a hot poker.   
   Too bad the rest of us don't have the kind of financial resources that   
   criminal gangs do.   
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   "Alan Baggett"  wrote in message   
   news:3797d813-d27c-40e7-9e1e-d46fd15e3829@f42g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...   
   Canada Revenue Agency ordered to pay Gang $200K for Rights   
   Violation :CRA SOTW   
      
   Canada Revenue Agency fined for probing gang members' earnings   
   By Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun August 12, 2010   
      
      
   VANCOUVER — The Canada Revenue Agency has been ordered to pay more   
   than $200,000 to the United Nations gang after a judge scolded the   
   taxman for demanding information about the earnings of some UN members   
   and associates.   
      
   Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan awarded $200,000 for legal fees to   
   a group of 15 people linked to the notorious B.C. gang and an   
   additional $17,486.92 for other court costs.   
      
   The motion seeking the cash was heard by Phelan in April, but the   
   ruling was posted just this week on the Federal Court’s website.   
      
   Phelan said the size of the award corresponded to the misconduct of   
   CRA officials who worked closely with police in sending out letters   
   called RFIS or “requirements for information” demanding details of   
   assets and incomes of those targeted.   
      
   “There was an air of disregard for the citizen’s legal rights,   
   including confidentiality obligations imposed on CRA officials, which   
   elevate the unlawful conduct to one deserving of some reprobation,”   
   Phelan said in his latest ruling.   
      
   The UN associates asked for more than $250,000 in costs, while the CRA   
   had offered to settle for about $102,000.   
      
   Last December, Phelan sided with the UN in its legal challenge of the   
   letters and general conduct of CRA investigators who teamed up with   
   Gang Task Force members to deliver the letters to gang members’ homes.   
      
   “Police presence was clear and visible and highly obtrusive. The   
   service of the documents was generally carried out late at night, with   
   multiple police cruisers present, lights on and with all the   
   paraphernalia of a police raid,” Phelan said, adding that the actions   
   were “obtrusive, invasive and unjustified.”   
      
   Phelan also said that the CRA treated the UN members differently than   
   other citizens and outside the mandate of the agency.   
      
   “It is a central tenet of the rule of law that everyone is required to   
   obey the law and all are entitled to the protections of the law, even   
   those litigants who may be deserving of little sympathy. In that   
   latter category would be members of gangs reputed to be engaged in   
   some of the most serious of illegal misconduct in the Lower Mainland   
   of British Columbia,” he said.   
      
   UN founder Clay Roueche, who was not targeted in the CRA probe, is   
   appealing a 30-year U.S. sentence handed to him for being the head of   
   a major cross-border drug-smuggling ring. A Seattle judge found the   
   gang moved about $500,000 a week from Seattle to Los Angeles from drug   
   sales.   
      
   UN-linked Daryl Johnson is one of the challengers who’ll share the   
   court award. He is also awaiting trial in B.C. Supreme Court with two   
   others on charges of conspiracy to import cocaine. Several other UN   
   gang members and associates are also awaiting trial.   
   Phelan noted that two of the challengers — Duane (D. W.) Meyer and   
   Elliott (Taco) Castaneda — were executed in gangland hits after the   
   CRA delivered the RFIs.   
      
   “It is not necessary or even within the scope of this inquiry to   
   determine whether the applicants are members of the UN Gang,” Phelan   
   said. “However, the history of this litigation, involving change of   
   the lead litigant due to ‘hits’ on other members and other steps taken   
   by the applicants to protect personal information usually available in   
   litigation due to the fear of harm from unknown persons, is consistent   
   with membership in illegal gangs.”   
      
   kbolan@vancouver sun.com   
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