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Sent 1: Also on Feb. 12, a week before the ice dancing finals, Tokhtakhounov told Anissina's mother in a telephone call that the Russian federation official "had called me from America" to assure that "we are going to make" Anissina "an Olympic champion."
Sent 2: He told her that the Russian skating federation official "will help -- he has two or three judges."
Sent 3: On or about March 7, in a conversation between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina, she said she would have won the event without his assistance because the Russian judge did not vote for her and her partner.
Sent 4: She also apologized for not calling to thank him earlier, but that Gailhaguet had forbidden her.
Sent 5: She told Tokhtakhounov that she knew the FBI had interviewed Gailhaguet because of information that Tokhtakhounov "was involved with the results" of the ice dancing.
Sent 6: He assured her that it was nonsense, but that Gailhaguet "knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more."
Sent 7: The conversations seem to indicate a familiarity between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina.
Sent 8: Tass, the official Russian news agency, reported that Anissina attended a ceremony in 1999 at a Paris hotel honoring Tokhtakhounov for his philanthropy.
Sent 9: That Russian organized crime may have infiltrated international sport at the Olympics stunned Phyllis Howard, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
Sent 10: "This is a criminal act and it certainly puts things in a different league," Howard said.
Sent 11: Lloyd Ward, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in a statement, "Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field."