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The card club opened in October 1984. By 1985, Lyon and Sam
Gilbert were sending its profits, approximately $1.6 million over
the course of 1985 and 1986, back to Ben through their various
partnerships, such as LCP Associates. Some of these profits
flowed into a trust account controlled by Allsworth. Some went
directly to petitioner and some went through Allsworth's trust
account and then to petitioner. At least $505,000 flowed through
petitioners' joint checking account at Safra Bank in 1986. To
further conceal Ben's ownership role in the card club, some of
these payments took the form of "loans" to petitioner that he
signed for on what Allsworth called "drugstore pads".
Throughout the early 1980's, Ben competitively raced
offshore power boats, an expensive sport popular in south Florida
at the time. In 1982, Ben created an entity, Apache Racing Team,
Inc., through which to conduct his boat racing and building
activities, although it was later administratively dissolved
while he was still racing and building powerboats. Other
entities were created on an ad hoc basis.9 Allsworth was
instrumental in creating many of these entities. Petitioner and
Ben used the term "Apache" generically when referring to many of
the entities connected with the offshore boat racing, and to
9Super Chief South came into existence in Aug. 1985 and was
dissolved just 15 months later in Nov. 1986. Super Chief, Inc.,
was created in Jan. 1984 and not dissolved until 1992, well after
Ben, petitioner, and all of the others had been arrested, tried,
and convicted on various smuggling and money laundering charges.
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