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would have declined to work in the gaming operation had they
received no compensation for their services. We find in the
record that working in the gaming operation was demanding, that
the nonofficer/nonsecurity guard workers were pressured to work
in the bingo games on both Saturday and Sunday for a total of 14
hours (exclusive of the additional time that they were required
to spend accompanying Clausing and/or Carroll to the bank to
deposit the days’ receipts), that those workers were required to
give advance notice for any vacation time that they sought, and
that those workers were seldom given time off. We also find in
the record that at least Helton, Phillips, and Cornett also
worked full-time for employers other than petitioner and that at
least Cornett traveled more than 20 miles to work in the gaming
operation. Given that we are unable to find on the basis of
credible evidence in the record that any of petitioner’s workers
worked in the gaming operation out of motivation to further
petitioner’s educational purpose, or even out of motivation by
charitable impulses in general, we are hard pressed to, and do
not, conclude that any of petitioner’s four witnesses who
received the $65 payments would have steadily and consistently
worked for petitioner without being paid for his or her services.
As to respondent’s three witnesses, we perceive the
testimony of those witnesses to be candid, sincere, and credible.
Petitioner attempts to discredit that testimony by arguing that
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