Maryland Indicts RNDC Employees for $9 Million Spirits “Smuggling Scheme”

A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted Republic National Distributing Company and three of its employees on charges for a "scheme to defraud the state and city of New York, and registered New York liquor wholesalers."The indictment (which is not a finding of guilt, mind you) alleges that three RNDC employees transferred and moved liquor from Maryland, where the state excise tax rate for liquor was approximately $1.50 per gallon, to New York, where the state excise tax for