Only one customs examiner stood in the administration building.

"It doesn't matter whether it is a third world customs examiner or a white shoe investment banker."

He was appointed as the first customs examiner and revenue collector by the British North Borneo (Chartered) Company in Tawau, 1894.

Those were stashed in his travel briefcase, in a small compartment that only a very careful customs examiner would ever find, and then only if told ahead of time that there was something strange about the incoming traveler.

The civil settlement with K Mart follows an investigation that began in 1985 when a customs examiner at the port in Newark noticed that tags on apparel destined for K Mart stores carried prices that were about half the prices carried on the invoice for customs.