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thereof, the names and phone numbers of sellers or real estate
brokers, or the asking prices of any such properties.
Our reservations about the reliability of the real estate
log are compounded by the results of an examination of the com-
puter diskette on which the real estate log was saved that was
conducted by Leslie Sawyer (Ms. Sawyer), a computer investigative
specialist employed by the Internal Revenue Service. The first
and last entries in the real estate log relating to the real
properties that petitioner purportedly visited during 1989 were
dated February 12, 1989, and December 7, 1989, respectively. Ms.
Sawyer printed a directory listing of the computer diskette on
which the real estate log was saved, and that directory listing
indicated that that log was last saved at a time when the com-
puter system's date was set on December 7, 1989, which is consis-
tent with the date of the last entry in that log. Ms. Sawyer
also used a computer program, known as "Norton Utilities", to
retrieve a document that was at one time saved on that computer
diskette and later deleted. That document was substantially
identical to the real estate log and was last saved at a time
when the computer system's date was set on January 1, 1989.
Petitioner did not offer an adequate explanation as to why a
document that was saved at a time when the computer system's date
was set on January 1, 1989, contained information with dates
after that date.
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