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Co., Mark also became increasingly anxious about being fired for
abusing drugs.
In July 1983, The First Boston Corporation (First Boston)
offered Mark a position in its restricted stock group, which was
then expanding. Mark accepted the offer as a solution to his
perceived problems at Goldman, Sachs & Co., despite his fears of
accepting the same sort of demanding job that he had voluntarily
abandoned just 2 years earlier.
Mark took his drug abuse habit to First Boston. His
behavior became even more erratic. Three days after reporting to
work, Mark missed 2 days because he was taking drugs.
Thereafter, he canceled a business trip, with the false excuse
that his mother had broken her arm. On another occasion, after
he had been missing for 2 days, Marla found him at the train
station, asleep in the back of his Jeep. In 1984, Mark went to
Harrah's Casino in Atlantic City for a second binge of illegal
drug use. During visits to Harrah's in 1982 and 1984, Mark wrote
checks totaling $12,600. Despite this erratic behavior, First
Boston earned commissions in the range of $3.5 million and $5.5
million on transactions that Mark executed in 1984 and 1985.
Mark continued as an employee at First Boston until 1989.
2. Petitioners' Lifestyle and Financial Transactions
Despite frequent drug-related absenteeism, Mark focused on
keeping his job during the years at issue, first at Goldman,
Sachs & Co. and then at First Boston. Mark's earnings, from
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