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Canadian furs. Ms. Ford testified she did not know why the house
in Montecito was titled only in her name, but it was, and she
signed multiple documents to make it so. She also claimed to
have no knowledge as to where she found the money to buy the
house in Montecito or whether she borrowed money from the
Maryland Bank in Luxembourg. In fact, she personally signed a
mortgage on the Montecito home with the Maryland Bank in
Luxembourg.
Ms. Ford testified that she does not know where she found
the money to write a check to cash for $346,290.78, or how the
cash was used. When asked whether the amount of $346,290.78 was
wired to her domestic bank account from an account at the
Maryland Bank in Luxembourg, she responded that it was possible,
but she could not recall. She testified that she did not
remember whether in 1986 she had an account with the Maryland
Bank in Luxembourg, or whether she had money wired to her from
overseas, but the evidence shows she was involved in
international money transfers in that year, at least one of them
from her personal trading account at Yorkton Securities, Inc.,
into her personal bank account in California. Ms. Ford testified
that she does not recall having worked for International Tillex
in 1985, having exercised an International Tillex stock option
while there, or even what a stock option is. After she was shown
a copy of a Tillex option agreement she signed on August 20,
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