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RAIN 05/18:Audits, Tammy Wynette and Philip Marlowe



It seems the Canadian government has been keeping secret information on its
citizens and its raising a ruckus. Tammy Wynnette's medical file is sealed,
and what changes have occurred to the private investigation industry because
of the Internet? All are answered below.
All urls except the one for the Calgary Sun of 5/17 are working as of 8:45
a.m.  ET

Daytona Beach News-Journal 5/17/00
Flagler pursues missing property: Clerk says records still in shambles
http://www.news-journalonline.com/2000/May/17/AREA11.htm

by Jim Haug
BUNNELL - Flagler County staff has accounted for much of the county's
missing assets, once estimated at $860,000, but County Clerk Syd Crosby is
still not satisfied. He has called their financial spread sheet an "absolute
nightmare."
In a new inventory reconciliation report released Monday, missing items now
total $101,000. The public is invited to see and touch the "found" items,
which include refrigerators and garage door openers.

Times of London 5/17/00
Stasi files on Kohl's tapped calls vanish
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/17/timfgneur01001.html

by Roger Boyes
HELMUT KOHL was the most security-conscious of modern German leaders. On the
car phone he would use only codenames for politicians - the line was being
monitored by different intelligence services - and would sometimes leave his
armoured Mercedes to use a public call box.
He was right to be cautious. The Stasi secret police had him in their
sights. As a result, the key to many current political riddles, above all
about illegal party financing, should be contained in the old East German
police reports.


Newsday 5/17/00
Wynette files off limits
http://www.newsday.com/ap/entertainment/ap429.htm

Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Medical and financial information about late
country music legend Tammy Wynette will stay off limits to the public -- and
her four daughters -- even after her widower hands it over to a federal
court, a judge said.
Wynette's widower George Richey has to provide the materials as part of a
wrongful death lawsuit over the singer's death in April 1998. An autopsy
showed her death was caused by repeated blood clots that led to heart
failure.

Unable to access the following story from the Calgary Sun, however here are
some other urls from today with further information about the story. It
appears that the Canadian papers are following the NYTimes example of moving
stories into the pay per view section after one day. Oh well
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-05-18-0037.html

http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-05-18-0003.html

http://www.canoe.ca/LondonNews/lf.lf-05-18-0003.html

Calgary Sun 5/17/00
Government pries into lives
Human Resources keeps personal files on all Canadians
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-05-17-0042.html

by Sean Durkan
OTTAWA -- Big Brother is watching you.

The federal government has "a de facto citizen profile" on virtually
everyone living -- and many of those buried -- in Canada, Privacy Commission
Bruce Phillips revealed yesterday.

The massive data bank is run by Jane Stewart's Human Resources and
Development Canada -- the same department under daily fire for its handling
of $1 billion in jobs grants.

FILES NEVER PURGED


Note the asterix were placed by me to override any filters.
The Western Producer 5/11/00
'L*ve b*g' nibbles grain firms
http://www.producer.com/articles/20000511/news/20000511news04.html

by Sean Pratt
Saskatoon newsroom
Until lately, the only bugs the grain industry had to worry about were the
ones out in the fields.
But now there are insidious little creatures that have the potential to gnaw
away on grain industry profits from the confines of office towers.
The latest computer virus to attack computer systems worldwide has been
dubbed the love bug. The electronic letter titled "IL*VEY*U" comes with an
attached file that can wreak havoc if opened with a Microsoft Outlook e-mail
program.

St. Louis Post 5/17/00
Has web technology made the private eye obsolete?
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/19FAE5442E2A683D862568
E200787451?OpenDocument

by Bonnie Goldstein
Back in the last century, I was a licensed private eye. More Erin Brockovich
than Philip Marlowe, I didn't carry a revolver, follow cheating spouses, or
drink Jack Daniels. Still, I was the real thing, solving cases with brains
and persistence.

But recently I wondered what effect the Internet has had on my old
profession. With a plethora of ``research'' Web sites making the detective's
job easier, does it still take a savvy gumshoe to work a case? Or, can any
Tom or Harry be a dick?



The Virginian-Pilot
Audit details evidence in case against NSU coaches
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0517nsu.html

by Marc Davis
Norfolk -- Coaches at Norfolk State University turned in homemade hotel
receipts, altered basketball tickets and fake meal receipts from restaurants
that didn't exist, according to a 1998 internal NSU audit.
The audit of NSU athletics from mid-1996 to mid-1998 found more than $6,000
in questionable travel expenses and triggered a State Police investigation,
which led to the indictment last month of four former coaches.



Boston Globe 5/17/00
100,000 documents turned over in SEC's Big Dig probe
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/138/metro/100_000_documents_turned_over_in
_SEC_s_Big_Dig_probe+.shtml

by Tina Cassidy
The state has turned over more than 100,000 documents to the Securities and
Exchange Commission as the agency intensifies its probe of Big Dig
financing, focusing on whether former turnpike chairman James J. Kerasiotes
concealed information from Wall Street investors.
Juan Marcelino, district administrator for the SEC's Boston office, said it
is commission policy to neither confirm nor deny an investigation, but the
subjects of their inquiries are free to discuss them, leaving Andrew Natsios
to speak out on the matter yesterday.



Rediff.com 5/17/00
Parliament clears IT Bill
http://www.rediff.com/business/2000/may/17itbill.htm

The Information Technology Bill, 2000 was passed in the Rajya Sabha (Upper
House of Parliament) today with a voice vote. The Lok Sabha has already
adopted it.
The bill, aimed at providing legal recognition to transactions carried out
through electronic data interchange and other means of electronic
communication, commonly known as e-commerce, was introduced in the Rajya
Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) earlier today.


Times of London 5/17/00
Court use puts documents in public domain
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/17/timlawcoa01001.html

Barings plc (in Liquidation) and Others v Coopers Lybrand and Others
Before Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Robert Walker and Mrs
Justice Smith
Judgment May 5, 2000
The Board of Banking Supervision's investigation and report into the
collapse of the Barings Group were conducted and produced under and for the
purposes of the Banking Act 1987 and, therefore, transcripts of interviews
obtained during the investigation were subject to the restriction on
disclosure contained in section 82 of the Act.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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