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charged Steele with one count of structuring the transactions in
the First Hi-Tech account to evade the currency transaction
reporting requirements of 31 U.S.C. sec. 5313(a), in violation of
31 U.S.C. secs. 5322(b) and 5324(a)(3) and 18 U.S.C. sec. 2.
In September 1992, Steele and the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York agreed that Steele would plead
guilty to this information and that the information would be
transferred to the District of New Jersey (the resulting case
filed as Crim. No. 92-513 (AJL)), so that Steele could be
sentenced in one proceeding on his separate pleas of guilty in
New York, New Jersey, and Colorado. The September 1992 plea
agreement stated that if Steele complied with the understandings
contained in the agreement, neither the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York nor the Tax Division of the
Department of Justice, as applicable, would prosecute Steele for
any crime related to: (1) His participation in the conspiracy to
return Marcos to power in the Philippines, (2) “his failure to
report as income millions of dollars he received from Ferdinand
Marcos in 1986 and 1987", (3) “the validity of the
Leatherstocking Farm as an entity entered into for profit, and
the validity of the [eight] Leatherstocking Partnerships”
(including Leatherstocking), and (4) “his failure to file
personal income tax returns for calendar years 1987 through 1990
and his failure to file for Roblis Enterprises Ltd., U.S. Income
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