From: arromdee@green.rahul.net 
  
 In article , 
 Todd Michel McComb  wrote: 
 >Well, I had a lengthy private conversation with Giorgio.  They 
 >offered to prove their existence either via phone conversations or 
 >notarized statements.  We didn't take them up on either, however. 
  
 That's not an offer of evidence, that's a psychological trick--offer 
 evidence under circumstances where nobody would want it because they'd feel 
 they were putting an undue burden on his family. 
  
 He's offering evidence that he knows nobody would dare demand, and that's 
 the 
 equivalent of not offering evidence at all. 
  
 I suggest calling his bluff and demanding the evidence anyway. 
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        Ken Arromdee / arromdee_AT_rahul.net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee 
  
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