has a loading opening, and a housing enclosing a revolving conveyor drum which is partially surrounded by a plurality of abrasive elements. The abrasive elements serve to clean the fruits and vegetables within the housing.
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2011/0220158, published on Sep. 15, 2011 to C. T. Ho, provides a fruit and vegetable cleaning device that includes a base, a pump and a pressure vessel. The pump is mounted on the base and includes a water feeding pipe connecting a water inlet port and the pressure vessel. The pressure vessel includes a water discharge port and an electromagnetic valve. The pump supplies water to the pressure vessel to allow air to mix with the water inside the pressure vessel so as to fill the water with airas PDC's construction superintendent. At trial, a jury heard that Presbitero signed PDC's corporate tax returns from 1995 through 1998. On each return, the company claimed tax deductions on schedule A, line 5 totaling approximately $5.9 million. James Hughes, the company's accountant, testified that he calculated the deductions by adding the amounts of canceled checks made out from PDC to six subcontractors.
The government maintained at trial that the six subcontractors did not exist. The six entities were all incorporated on the same day. None ever filed a tax return of any sort with the IRS, none paid its annual tax with the Illinois Secretary of State, and the six corporations had all been dissolved (by operation of Illinois statute for failure to pay tax and file an annual