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it was performing for FIG and other customers.2 During the early
part of 1983, DCI sold ETS to the Diamonds, who thereafter owned
and operated it as a sole proprietorship.3
During 1983 and all relevant periods thereafter, ETS was the
exclusive provider to DCI of secretarial and clerical support
services, such as typing, photocopying, transcribing, and answer-
ing the telephone, with DCI providing approximately 95 to 99
percent of ETS' business. During those periods, ETS also made
its clerical staff available to DCI for DCI's investigative work
and permitted DCI's surveillance vans to be marked with ETS'
logo. During 1983 and 1984, virtually all of the services that
ETS provided to DCI were related to the work that DCI was per-
forming for FIG, and ETS provided certain of those services, such
as the preparation of clerical reports, in accordance with FIG's
specifications.
During 1983 and 1984, ETS sent DCI invoices for services
rendered that identified, inter alia, the name of the case with
respect to which it provided the service, the type of service
rendered (e.g., typing or copying), and the charge for such
2 DCI informed certain FIG officials of its plans to form ETS.
Those officials, who were concerned about the security of docu-
ments containing confidential information relating to the inves-
tigative work that DCI was conducting for FIG, assisted DCI in
executing those plans.
3 At the time that DCI transferred the ownership of ETS to the
Diamonds, Mr. Diamond informed FIG officials of that transfer.
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