Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 18 for the Government to manufacture venue in the Southern District of New York by bringing a cooperating witness into the district for the sole purpose of making scripted phone calls to fulfill the government's objective of informing fellow conspirators of the cooperator's location

QUESTION PRESENTED 1. Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article ITI, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 18 for the Government to manufacture venue in the Southern District of New York by bringing a cooperating witness into the district for the sole purpose of making scripted phone calls to fulfill the government’s objective of informing fellow conspirators of the cooperator’s location.