Michael Chatman, the supervisor in the federal courts' Pretrial Services Office who filed a petition Dec. 4 stating that Snipes had traveled to Dubai "without permission of the court, " declined to say how Snipes' unauthorized trip was brought to his attention.

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The judge looked at the pretrial-services forms and noted that Prokopi had fifteen hundred dollars in his checking account and seven hundred in cash.

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