on September 17, 2003, and listed himself and his friend, Mark B. Weiser, as the officers. The corporation's listed business address was the home address of Angela Saiza Bailey, Ellisor's then-girlfriend. Ellisor also opened an account for the University Diplomatic Trust Account at Bank of America on October 10, 2003. Ellisor and Weiser were the only signatories on the account.
[2]  As captured by a recording made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of a message that Ellisor left on one teacher's home answering machine, Ellisor promised that:

The event will be decorated sort of Harry Potter-ish. Every child will have a seat. There will be the international exhibits with their trees, gifts underneath them. Each child will get ten tickets. They will fill them out at school. TheyHines did not send the letter to the university for approval. He was subsequently discharged from his post in the art department for using the letterhead of the University of Miami without permission.
[10]  Ellisor's testimony on this matter appears at variance with the trial testimony of the Enterprise Rent-a-Car agent who delivered Ellisor's rental vehicle to the Doubletree Hotel. She testified that Ellisor told her he was preparing a Christmas show "for children from the urban schools that would not normally get Christmas presents and he was trying to help the schools and trying to have children receive Christmas presents for the holidays." He requested, and received, a discount rate for the Cadillac De Ville because he claimed "he didn't want to take money from the children."

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