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Pontiac. At Village Pontiac Mr. Reimer started as a salesperson,
but quickly advanced to finance manager.
B. NSA Air and Water Filtration Activity
As stated above, in 1990 Mr. Reimer became involved with NSA
after he lost his job with Recticel Foam Corporation. Mr. Reimer
attended a local NSA seminar that he became aware of through a
newspaper advertisement. NSA marketed air and water filtration
devices, and later educational goods, through a direct marketing
distributorship similar to the Amway business model. At first,
Mr. Reimer was a distributor for NSA but rose to the next level
of sales coordinator. As a sales coordinator, Mr. Reimer had
other distributors below him. Mr. Reimer conducted local
seminars to sell products and recruit new sales coordinators, and
also attended regional and national conferences.
Mr. Reimer recorded all NSA related business income and
expenses in an outdated computer system which used 5-1/4-inch
floppy disks. Petitioners upgraded their computers in 1995 and
as a result Mr. Reimer no longer has access to his business
records pertaining to NSA on the floppy disks. Mr. Reimer
reported income and business expenses from the NSA activity on
Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business. Beginning in late
1991, Mr. Reimer decided that he would seek new full-time
employment because he wanted to earn more money but would
continue the NSA activity on a part-time basis. He obtained
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