Opinion ID: 11538
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: exciting tans

Text: 20 Terry Donahue, 8 Cushman, and Marylin Cook set up a tanning salon called Exciting Tans using money from Cushman and money that investors had sent to Hartford and Great Southwest Energy for the drilling of the oil and gas wells. This money was treated as a loan to Exciting Tans. To repay the loan, Exciting Tans would send money every week to Matuso Holding Company, which was used as a holding company to funnel money back to Cushman. 9 21 On one occasion, Donahue heard Cushman and Landerman in a conversation deciding that $23,000 (a $15,000 check and a $8,000 check) from Cushman would be routed through Landerman's client trust account and then to Exciting Tans. That money was used to start a second tanning salon. Cushman's investment was also returned to him by allowing his employees to charge services at Exciting Tans against any amounts owed to him.