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expenses were paid by check. The paychecks written on the
corporate account were not included with the daily bank deposits.
Paychecks were cashed from the till in the amounts of $14,118 in
1991, $18,002 in 1992, and $2,382 in 1993. Expenses were paid
from cash taken from the till in the amounts of $138 in 1991,
$3,632 in 1992, and $1,709 in 1993.
Each day, Mr. Grandbois removed all but $100 of the
currency, along with checks, receipts, and other miscellaneous
items from the two cash tills in the store. He placed everything
he removed from the tills into a deposit bag. The next morning,
he took the tapes out of the cash register and placed them in the
deposit bags.
Each day, Mr. Beck picked up the deposit bag and took it to
his home, where he would count the money and prepare a deposit
slip. Because of the store's close proximity to the Canadian
border, some of the cash was in Canadian currency. Mr. Beck kept
a lock box in his home. Often, he had in excess of $50,000 in
cash in the lock box. Mr. Beck used the cash to exchange the
Canadian currency with U.S. currency at the exchange rate. The
U.S. currency was then included in the deposit.
Mr. Beck traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, to exchange the
Canadian currency to U.S. currency and to gamble. In 1991, he
went to Las Vegas four or five times. In later years the
exchange rate was lower, and Mr. Beck went less often. Mr. Beck
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