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At the time of trial, petitioner Barbara Kosinski
(Mrs. Kosinski) had been married to petitioner for 22 years. She
received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of
Michigan in Dearborn and was employed part time as a bank teller
at two different banks consecutively during the 1980s. At the
time of trial, Mrs. Kosinski was a full-time homemaker.
Petitioner’s Contracting Business
After the death of his father in 1991, petitioner
incorporated T.J. Construction Co. (T.J. Construction) to
continue certain building projects on which his father had been
working prior to his death. Petitioner’s father had been a
carpenter and independent contractor and had worked primarily
with Thyssen Steel Inc. (Thyssen Steel), which manufactures steel
wire, steel coil, and other steel products. From 1991 through
1999, Thyssen Steel was the only customer of T.J. Construction.
Much of the work performed by T.J. Construction was as a
contractor for foundation cement work for two Thyssen Steel
plants. Most of the work for the plant in Detroit, Michigan, was
subcontracted out by T.J. Construction to Melvin Phillips
(Phillips), the sole owner of Phillips Contracting Co. (Phillips
Contracting), and Phillips was one of several subcontractors for
the plant in Richburg, South Carolina. Phillips and petitioner
were close family friends, and Phillips substantially facilitated
petitioner’s entrance into the contracting field. On the Thyssen
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