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after the marijuana arrived there. During this time,
the coconspirators received a large amount of cash from
Mr. Erickson in exchange for marijuana. Mr. Bonalewicz
left the Kalamazoo area 3 or 4 days after the marijuana
arrived there. Petitioner and Mr. Lubiejewski left on
August 20, 1983, to travel to New York. Mr. Nelson
remained in Kalamazoo for 9 to 11 days thereafter to
supervise the transfer of the marijuana to Mr. Erickson
and to accept and record the related cash payments.
Mr. Nelson recorded these additional cash payments in a
notebook and stored the cash on behalf of petitioner and
Mr. Lubiejewski.
Petitioner returned to the Kalamazoo area on
August 22, 1983, to take some of the cash Mr. Nelson had
received up to that time. Petitioner again returned on
August 28, 1983, after the transaction with Mr. Erickson
was completed. At the time of petitioner's second trip to
the Kalamazoo area, he and Mr. Nelson packed the remaining
cash receipts into bags and traveled on a private jet to
New York City. Upon arriving in New York, petitioner and
Mr. Nelson went to petitioner's mother-in-law's house and
counted the cash they had transported from Michigan. This
cash totaled in excess of $4.5 million. Mr. Nelson helped
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