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In connection with his divorce, petitioner filed a document
entitled "Support Affidavit" with the Superior Court of the State
of New Hampshire. Petitioner listed an outstanding mortgage of
$865,000 on this affidavit. He did not include any debt that was
outstanding to any member of the Ben-Jabr family. Petitioner
filed the document on September 15, 1988, which would have been
after petitioner's receipt of the alleged loan proceeds. The
following day, petitioner and Linda Bennett entered a permanent
stipulation of divorce agreement with the court, which recounted
petitioner's obligation to pay Linda $2.5 million in connection
therewith. Assuming the loan existed, it clearly would have been
in petitioner's best interest to include a $2,953,000 loan
obligation as an expense on his support affidavit.
Finally, we note that the testimony of petitioner's
principal witness, Fallah Ben-Jabr, the brother of Abdul Aziz
Ben-Jabr, was unreliable, and we decline to place any weight on
it. For instance, when asked on direct examination if he knew
whether petitioner and Abdul had any financial arrangement with
respect to petitioner's alleged acquisition of the automobiles
for Abdul, Fallah could only testify that "I believe so, yes."
When questioned about it further, Fallah responded: "The details
I cannot inform you." In addition, when questioned on cross-
examination regarding his knowledge of the sale of the
automobiles in 1988, Fallah testified that he had no personal
knowledge of the transaction or what actually happened to the
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