assisted Kelly in cashing this check by calling his bank and giving his personal approval for them to do so that same day. A few weeks later, when he called Kelly regarding a notice he had received of a proposed increase for the 1977 tax year, Kelly merely assured him that he would "take care of it"; as before, no inquiries were made, nor explanations given, as to the procedure by which Kelly would do so, and, again, he supplied no affidavit or other documentation to support the reduction restoration which remained in effect through 1979  the end of the quadrennial period.
A similar scenario occurred in spring, 1978, when Ottinger had a meeting with Lavin  who was introduced to him as "Judge Lavin" by Kelly theprevious year  wherein Lavin informed him that he was a former board employee, that he was in the process of starting a tax consulting business and that he could help Ottinger secure a tax reduction on his condominium. Ottinger agreed to the proposition and the reduction was processed, as before, without documentation or action on Ottinger's part, for a "fee" of $600, which, according to Ottinger, he paid Lavin in cash. Moreover, although Ottinger testified at trial that he was unaware of Lavin's involvement in the illegal scheme until exposure of it in the media, he previously testified in Federal court that he knew of Lavin's involvement at the time of this meeting.
 6 We believe that the trial court's finding that "a reasonable businessman in Ottinger's