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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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