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• holding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to admit altered copies of a record under Rule 803(6) because the records indicated “a lack of trustworthi- ness”
• noting that joint and several liability is appropriate where apportionment is difficult given the fact that “defendants move funds through various accounts to avoid detection, [or] use several nominees to hold securities or improperly derived profits”
• affirming summary judgment against a “bookkeeper” where he ignored obvious indicia of fraud in stock transactions using “nominee” accounts
• “The burden is on the tortfeasor to establish that the liability is capable of apportionment.”
• a co-defendant spouse found liable for unlawful proceeds where the proceeds funded her “lavish lifestyle”
• a co-defendant spouse found liable for unlawful proceeds where the proceeds funded her “lavish lifestyle”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).