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Judge Sides With Gang in Canada Revenue Agency dispute :CRA SOTW 

Judge sides with UN gang in tax case
'Unjustified'; Revenue Canada ordered to pay legal costs


VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Canada has sided with members of the notorious United Nations gang against the Canada Revenue Agency, saying a government employee had no authority to issue letters demanding information about the source of the gangsters' income.

And Judge Michael Phelan attacked the tax agency for the way it delivered those letters to gang members -- with tax officials escorted by the Gang Task Force in police cars with lights flashing.

"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," Judge Phelan said, adding that the actions were "obtrusive, invasive and unjustified."
Instead of the gang members being ordered to pay taxes on undocumented income, tax officials have been ordered to pay all the legal expenses of the UN members for their court challenge, which was filed last year and went to court in March 2009.

Judge Phelan said that while the revenue agency alleged the applicants "to be members of the UN gang," the gangsters alleged a "continuing course of illegal conduct carried out by certain officials of the Canada Revenue Agency which are not authorized and were engaged in for purposes other than the enforcement of the act."

At a sentencing for gang founder Clay Roueche this week in a U.S. district court, assistant U.S. attorney Susan Roe said a multi-year, multi-agency investigation found the UN was moving about US$500,000 a week from drug sales from Seattle to Los Angeles.

And she said that means the gang could have been distributing $26-million a year worth of cocaine and marijuana across the Canada-U. S. border.

Roueche was sentenced to 30 years by the U.S. court.

Fifteen UN members and associates claimed in court that tax officials were working illegally with police by passing on their confidential information and by trying to humiliate them by showing up late at night or meeting them in public places "to achieve maximum embarrassment."



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