Tosefta for Bekhorot 61:42
ומעשרותיו דאי בעי שדי ביה מומא בכוליה עדריה
'He also allows himself to be asked with reference to his levitically prepared food', [the reason being] because they are fit to eat during the period of his uncleanness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He is consequently not suspected of declaring something which is unclean to be clean, since he can make use even of unclean food. This of course only refers to hullin, but unclean terumah is not suitable for him to eat even when he is levitically unclean, as it requires to be burnt.');"><sup>24</sup></span>
Tosefta Demai
Originally they (i.e., the Sages) said that [as to] a chaver that becomes a tax collector, we force him out of the chaverut [presumably, permanently], and then they reconsidered to say, that as long as he is a tax collector, he is not [even considered] trustworthy, [but once he] separates from [his office of] tax collector, behold, he is [considered] trustworthy. (Cf. Bekh. 31a:4.)
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