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          suggesting that during the month of March 1996, there was                   
          transferred from Blackland to petitioner $600,000.  Any such                
          transfer apparently would have occurred under the above March 10,           
          1995, resolution in favor of petitioner and petitioner’s wife               
          with regard to their control of the funds of Blackland.                     
               In April of 1996, those tenant farmers who had filed for               
          bankruptcy entered into settlement agreements with Blackland                
          under which Blackland agreed to release the tenant farmers from             
          all liability to Blackland on the farm loans in return for an               
          assignment from the tenant farmers to Blackland of all rights to            
          crop proceeds, crop insurance payments, and Government payments.            
               The trial record does not disclose the amount of funds that            
          Blackland and/or petitioner recovered under the above assignments           
          by the farmers of their crop proceeds, crop insurance payments,             
          and Government payments.  From April 1, 1996 through December 1,            
          1996, however, Blackland’s monthly balance sheets reflect that              
          Blackland received approximately $350,000 in loan repayments from           
          the tenant farmers.                                                         
               Beginning with Blackland’s June 30, 1996, balance sheet,               
          Blackland’s balance sheets make no further reference to a                   
          $600,000 note receivable obligation due from petitioner to                  
          Blackland, and yet there is no indication that petitioner made              
          such a payment to Blackland.                                                








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