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To: Sam Citron who wrote (139)	11/9/2000 2:29:18 PM
From: Cesare J Marini	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 167

You say that "making a secondary look better" is not "deceptive"? Well, yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying. What's wrong with getting receivables off the books if you can do it for a good price? Companies pretty up their balance sheets all the time. What can be more deceptive than attempting to withhold pertinent financial information from a buyer? Look, I agree they could have been more forthcoming about it, but they didn't necessarily "withhold pertinent financial information." Selling receivables to a bank is perfectly legal and done all the time. It's not as though they cooked the books or anything.