The tit-for-tat claim asserts that the Agent said she could impose no penalty or a 40% penalty depending on whether the taxpayer gave her what she wanted.

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Five years ago he noticed that a company called Nanjing Fenshilan Ice Wine Co. had popped up, selling what it maintains is Vineland Estates icewine, complete with photos of Schmidt's winery adorning its claim that it was the sole agent of Vineland in the Asia-Pacific region.

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In view of this sequence of events, which is confirmed by Charles Stanley, Lord Archer's claim that his role was only that of an agent is curious.

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S. agent named Jeff Novitzky, whose biggest claim to fame, before all this, was helping to bring down an extortionist California kickboxing instructor who brandished a samurai sword and called himself the Immortal Tiger.

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The bizarre charge springs from his own bizarre claim: that, during his tenure, he was an American agent.

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Abassi allegedly discussed with the undercover officer his plans to obtain immigration documents fraudulently so he could stay in the United States and engage in terrorism, and his plan included a claim that he was working for a company owned by the undercover agent.

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The claim of rebels using sarin gas comes after months of suspicions that the Syrian regime has used the same nerve agent against rebels.

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