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By way of further illustration of testimony of Mr. Mifsud
that we found to be implausible, inconsistent with and not
supported by objective evidence in the record, and not credible
Mr. Mifsud testified that his father owned a very large, eight-
bedroom house in Malta, which, according to Mr. Mifsud, his
father sold for 30,000 pounds in 1952, or $146,400 at the then
prevailing exchange rate of $4.88 per pound. Maltese official
records show only two purchases and one sale of real property by
Mr. Mifsud's father and one sale by Mr. Mifsud and certain of his
family members. In November 1929, Mr. Mifsud's father purchased
a house in Malta for 570 pounds. In April 1937, he sold that
house for 270 pounds. In September 1938, Mr. Mifsud's father
purchased another house in Malta for 350 pounds. In 1966, Mr.
Mifsud, along with his mother, three brothers, and a sister sold
a house in Malta for 2,600 pounds, or $7,254 at the exchange rate
in effect in 1966 of $2.79 per pound.
We also found implausible, not supported by objective
evidence in the record, and not credible Mr. Mifsud's testimony
that although his father did not have to work since he brought
with him approximately $500,000 from Malta in 1951, he decided to
take a position about a year after he emigrated to the United
States when he was 48 years old as a head waiter at a hotel in
Detroit because he was bored. We simply do not believe that Mr.
Mifsud's father would have undertaken such physically demanding
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