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such legal expenses incurred through 1993, petitioner had paid at
least $46,593 as of the end of that year. With respect to such
legal expenses incurred after 1993, petitioner had paid at least
$64,142 after that year. As a result of the Miller loan litiga-
tion, on or about March 3, 1998, petitioner was awarded from Ms.
Turner $208,206 in attorney’s fees incurred in connection with
that litigation.
Sometime during or shortly after 1986, petitioner met Rick
Patterson (Mr. Patterson), a real estate broker. Throughout Mr.
Patterson’s relationship with petitioner, petitioner was inter-
ested in acquiring and selling real property and in financing
purchases of real property made by other clients of Mr.
Patterson. As of the time of the trial in this case, petitioner
had participated, directly or indirectly, in at least six real
estate transactions in which he acquired interests, and at least
three transactions in which he sold interests, in various real
properties. One of the real estate transactions in which peti-
tioner acquired an interest in real property involved peti-
tioner’s purchase of a mobile home that he used as his residence
for a period of time not disclosed by the record. As of the time
of the trial in this case, petitioner had lent money to at least
seven individuals who were referred to him by Mr. Patterson,
having made more than one loan to at least two of those individu-
als. As of the time of the trial in this case, petitioner had
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