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In addition to Pasko’s claim and the finder’s fee document,
respondent based his determination of unreported assets on
information furnished by certain individuals and on the value of
assets seized from safe deposit boxes in the name of the
decedent’s trust (Trust) during the audit of the estate’s Federal
estate tax return. Respondent conversed primarily with four of
the decedent’s intimate friends and the decedent’s two main
suppliers of many of the assets collected by him. The first
friend, Vivian Ballard Wong (Wong), had a personal relationship
with the decedent from February 1987 through June 1991. Wong
described to respondent a collection of jewels in the possession
of the decedent in 1991. The other friends, Ira and Larry
Goldberg and Robert Hesselgesser (Hesselgesser), generally
relayed to respondent facts establishing that they had personal
knowledge of the decedent’s gemstone and jewelry collections, and
they described to respondent certain gemstones and items of
jewelry which they had seen in the decedent’s possession near the
time of his death. One of the decedent’s suppliers, Dr. Nathan
Mamiye (Mamiye) of New York, New York, confirmed selling loose
gemstones, jewelry, jade, and ivory to the decedent and provided
respondent with receipts reflecting a large dollar amount of
diamonds which he (Mamiye) had recently sold to the decedent.
The other supplier, Lloyds Fine Jewels (Lloyds) of New York, New
York, provided respondent with receipts reflecting more than $1
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