His wife was contending Clancy was worth more than he said, and it didn't help that he was trying to buy into the Vikings for $200 million.
He suggested the two companies that then made up the group, French Connection Overseas and Stephen Marks Holdings, were together worth £8.4m, whereas HM Revenue & Customs contended that they were worth just £3.1m.
Another Forest Hills resident, Mike Lasprilla, 24, was more defiant, snorting when asked about Rodriguez and contending he was "not worth the money".
Mr. Moncrief is suing Gazprom in Berlin, contending that his stake is now worth $12 billion.
Contending that the team was profitable and worth far more, Hicks and Gillett tried to add friendly members to the board to block the sale.
The woman, Susan R. Madakor, 40, was also charged with making false statements in contending that she had won the windfall after buying $100 worth of lottery tickets.
But doing so is worth the effort, Brynjolfsson and McAfee contend, because machines and their foibles explain a lot about our current economic situation.
From 1995 through 1999, the hottest period for initial public offerings, the Craanes received less than 1percentt of the I.P.O. shares allocated to brokers in their office, which their complaint contends were worth "hundreds of millions of dollars".
Even its most basic task -- coming up with a clear price tag for providing a decent education to every schoolchild in the state -- seemed to be skirted by handing legislators a fuzzy range that spanned more than $3 billion worth of options, critics contend.
For what it's worth, I continue to contend that the notion that this was "a straightforward reported piece" to be plainly ridiculous, for the reasons I cite above.
