Edward Nathan Levine - Page 17

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               Respondent maintains that the cash originated from                     
          petitioner's sale of illegal drugs.  Respondent contends that               
          petitioner's plea of guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine             
          in the years 1974 to 1985, petitioner's stipulation that he paid            
          most of his living expenses during 1987 and 1988 using cash,                
          cashier's checks, and money orders, the amount of cash found in             
          the boxes, the use of the safe deposit boxes to conceal the                 
          money, and petitioner's use of fictitious identifications                   
          indicate that petitioner was involved in the activity of                    
          distributing illegal drugs.                                                 
               Laurence M. Gallion (Gallion), a special agent with Customs            
          testified that during the early part of 1987 Customs instigated             
          an investigation of major drug smugglers on the West Coast.                 
          Among the suspected major smugglers investigated was petitioner.            
               Gallion testified that at the time of these investigations,            
          Customs had a warehouse in San Francisco that was full of                   
          confiscated marijuana which it decided to sell in a reverse sting           
          operation to suspected drug dealers.  In the sting operation,               
          Customs planned to sell the marijuana to the suspect, and then              
          arrest the suspect for buying it.                                           
               Accordingly, Customs asked Paul Logan (Logan) to work for it           
          as a confidential informant and to set up a marijuana deal with             
          petitioner.  Petitioner and Logan have known each other since               
          sometime in the 1970's when Logan was a mid-level marijuana                 
          dealer in Miami, Florida.  Furthermore, they have engaged in                
          business with each other in the past; sometime around 1985,                 



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