In other, warmer cases, an importer might illegally overstate the size of his purchases, so as to remit more money out of the country.
And for minors that want to buy Juuls or Juul pods illegally, their tiny size makes them easy to smuggle and resell.
Thomas Currier, a principal of the group, said he had hired the architects Wids DeLaCour and Richard Ferrara because he admired the deft way they altered and reduced in size an illegally installed rooftop addition in TriBeCa to conform to landmarks commission requirements.
The mistrust of Mr. Boehner among Mr. King and his allies deepened recently when the speaker rebuked an anti-amnesty hero, Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, for commenting that young immigrants here illegally had "calves the size of cantaloupes" from running drugs across the border.
But experts believe far more money is siphoned by employers that illegally underpay premiums by underreporting the size of their work force or by doctors who fabricate bills.
Rousseff was impeached on charges that she illegally manipulated federal accounts to obscure the size of the budget deficit, though her opponents weren't solely motivated by issues of truth and justice.
The analysts calculate that an area of forest the size of a soccer pitch is illegally logged every second.
In the e-mails, energy executives, industry lawyers, state geologists and market analysts voice skepticism about lofty forecasts and question whether companies are intentionally, and even illegally, overstating the productivity of their wells and the size of their reserves.
Just 60 of the animals remain after years of being caught in nets used to illegally fish for totoaba, another endangered species of similar size.
The New York dispute, focusing on illegal immigrants with cancer — a marginal group of unknown size among the more than 500,000 people living in New York illegally — has become a flash point for health officials and advocates for immigrants in recent weeks.
