Federal Judge Orders UPS To Pay More Than $240M For Shipping Untaxed Cigarettes

Mealey's (May 26, 2017, 1:27 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on May 25 ordered United Parcel Service Inc. to pay a total of $246,975,614 after finding in March that UPS knowingly shipped cigarettes to unauthorized sellers and on behalf of those sellers to residents in New York (The State of New York, et al. v. United Parcel Service Inc., No. 15-cv-1136, S.D. N.Y., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43495)....