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Ferrari automobiles to Ms. Allen. Petitioner owed Ms. Allen
money for a number of different things, including child support.
Mr. Miles is an attorney in the State of Florida, and he has
known petitioner since 1959. He has been petitioner’s real
estate attorney since 1975, and he started acting as a trustee
for petitioner at that time. As trustee, Mr. Miles did whatever
petitioner instructed him to do. Mr. Miles held the proceeds
from petitioner’s sales of real estate in his law firm’s trust
account. Alana Goodman was a bookkeeper for Mr. Miles’s law
firm, and she maintained ledger cards which reflected the
identity of properties held in trust, the date that funds were
deposited or disbursed, and the amounts that were deposited and
disbursed from the law firm’s trust account.
On several occasions, petitioner instructed Mr. Miles or Ms.
Goodman to disburse his funds from the law firm’s trust account
for various payments: (1) On December 23, 1985, a house payment
of $51,266.25 was paid to Walter E. and Maxine Melitshka from the
trust account with respect to petitioner’s personal residence;
(2) on May 15, 1987, a house payment of $71,266.25 was paid to
Mr. and Mrs. Melitshka with respect to petitioner’s personal
residence; (3) on May 21, 1987, petitioner’s accountant, John F.
Kelly, was paid $12,187.50; (4) on June 15, 1987, $32,500 was
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