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earned or possessed, by petitioner's father, nor does it connect
petitioner to any of the activities of his father or show that
petitioner appropriated money from him. Accordingly, we hold
that Exhibit T is irrelevant to the issue of a likely source of
income for petitioner, and is inadmissible.
Exhibit AD is a memorandum prepared by Gwen Leftwitch,
respondent's special agent, of a conversation she had with Dick
Ripley, DEA special agent, dated June 6, 1995. Neither were
called to testify in support of the memorandum, which is
therefore inadmissible as hearsay. Fed. R. Evid. 801(c).
Exhibit AB consists of a compilation of computer printouts
and photocopies of 6 newspaper articles pertaining to the
criminal organization to which John R. Boone, Sr., belonged,
referred to colloquially therein as the "Cornbread Mafia".
Respondent offered no witness to establish the truth of the
matters stated in Exhibit AB, which we therefore hold to be
inadmissible hearsay. Fed. R. Evidence 801(c).
We turn now to address the substantive issue of whether
respondent has proven a likely source of income for petitioner
for 1989 and 1990. Respondent argues that petitioner expended
and deposited money having similar musty and mildewed
characteristics to that spent by his father and that, as the
marijuana business is a cash business, the cash more probably
than not came from the same source. Respondent's only basis for
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