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Hartford Courant 10/11/00
Mortuary fails to produce records
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by Jack Dolan and Dave Altimari
A well-known Hartford mortuary under investigation for price-gouging and
product-switching has failed to comply with a Tuesday deadline to turn over
records, state investigators said.
The state attorney general's office is investigating Weinstein Mortuary, 640
Farmington Ave., on various allegations ranging from overcharging
wealthy-looking customers to failing to perform religious rites on the bodies
of clients.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he will seek a court order as early
as today compelling the Weinsteins to comply with the subpoena.


Las Vegas Sun 10/11/00
Records: Rhodes sought payment for NLV property
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-crime/2000/oct/11/510890761.html

by Diana Sahagun
City and court records show that a receipt for a hand-held computer -- which
triggered an insurance fraud indictment against North Las Vegas Councilman
John Rhodes -- was submitted for reimbursement to both the city and Rhodes'
personal insurance company.
The receipt originally caught the eye of insurance investigators for other
reasons -- the date of the receipt for the Palm Pilot did not match up to
that of an alleged burglary at Rhodes' home.
Rhodes claimed to his insurance company that he bought the Palm Pilot a few
days after an alleged burglary at his East Diana Drive home, as a replacement
for a hand-held computer that was stolen from the home.
The reported burglary was in September 1998.


El Paso Times 10/11/00
City drops e-mail agenda item
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20001011-51815.shtml

by Tammy Fonce-Olivas
The City Council did away Tuesday with a request by Northeast city Rep. John
Cook to move the department that monitors e-mail out from under the immediate
supervision of the mayor.
The council, including Cook, voted unanimously to delete the item from the
council meeting agenda after Ramirez said there are plans to have the
Information Services Department report to city Chief Administrative Officer
Monica Cunningham.
Ramirez said the city is working on hiring an administrator to oversee
information services and other communication departments. The director will
report to Cunningham.
"We will shortly make that a civil service position," Ramirez said.


Nashua Telegraph 10/07/00
Man denied access to Humphrey's records
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by J.M. Hirsch
Associated Press
CONCORD - A Northwood man wants to know why state archive officials won't let
him see financial records donated to the state by Republican gubernatorial
candidate Gordon Humphrey.
Robert Jean went to the state Division of Records Management and Archives on
Friday to request access to papers Humphrey donated in 1991, around the time
he left the U.S. Senate.
Jean, an independent who supports Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, said he
requested the records because he wants to know more about where Humphrey gets
his money.
But according to Joshua Gordon, Jean's lawyer, division officials would not
let him see the contents of one box labeled "personnel and finance records"
the agency listed as "sealed at request of Senator Humphrey."


Beaumont Enterprise 10/11/00
Project to capture Beaumont history
http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/bea/bea103133.shtml

by Andrea Wright
BEAUMONT - Capturing yesterday before it fades from memory and today while
it's fresh is the goal of a unique project created to commemorate the
centennial of Spindletop and preserve Beaumont for future generations.
The Voice of History project is seeking 100 community groups to document any
aspect of lltheir history through oral interviews to be conducted during
2001, which will be transcribed, and transferred to the Tyrrell Historical
Library on Jan. 10, 2002.
"Nothing precisely like this has been done here before," said Matthew White,
director of the McFaddin-Ward House Museum and chairman of the oral history
project.


Los Angeles Times 10/11/00
FCC denies Disney access to Time-Warner-AOL data
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/natpol/20001011/t000096773.html

Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON--Walt Disney Co. has been barred by U.S. regulators from reviewing
sensitive documents filed by America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc. about
their union until assuring it will honor confidentiality agreements.
The Federal Communications Commission said it is investigating Disney's
violation of rules restricting dissemination of private information. A lawyer
representing Disney at the FCC sent an e-mail to other company staff Sept. 22
with information gleaned from internal documents submitted by America Online.
Disney, which opposes the America Online-Time Warner transaction, waited five
days to report its breach.
The FCC has required America Online and Time Warner to file sensitive data,
including contracts and business plans, in the review of its proposed
$147-billion union. Lawyers for rivals can review those documents after
pledging, in writing, to maintain confidentiality. Any breach must be
immediately reported to the FCC and the companies.



The Huntsville Times 10/11/00
Old cotton harvest photos on display in Guntersville
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Oct2000/11-e6930.html

Times Marshall County Bureau
GUNTERSVILLE - Works by photographers who documented the era of ''Five Cent
Cotton" during the Depression will be on exhibit at the Guntersville Museum
through Oct. 31.
A general look at the role cotton has played in Alabama's history will also
be the subject of a program Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the museum.
The exhibit of photographs made by federal Farm Security Administration
photographers is provided by the Committee for Humanities in Alabama in
association with Birmingham's Public Library and Museum of Art.


Albuquerque Journal 10/11/00
AG's office swaps contract signatures
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/146980news10-11-00.htm

Ian Hoffman
The state's highest law-enforcement agency says there's nothing wrong with
its Consumer Protection chief, Robert E. Reyna, ending investigations and
lawsuits on behalf of New Mexicans without being licensed to practice law in
the state.
The state Attorney General's Office is nonetheless withdrawing Reyna's
signatures from legal documents and swapping in the signature of another
assistant attorney general who is licensed, according to documents on file at
the Attorney General's Office.
The Disciplinary Board for the state Supreme Court is investigating the
Attorney General's Office for letting Reyna practice law without taking the
state bar exam or getting a state law license.



Birmingham News 10/10/00
Cramped state archives to grow
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Oct2000/10-e414003b.html

by David White
MONTGOMERY - For Ed Bridges, director of the state Department of Archives and
History, the West Wing has nothing to do with the White House or a hit
television series.
For him, it's a proposed $14.5 million, 60,000-square-foot addition to the
state archives building.
Construction should start early next year, with the west wing opening by late
2003, Bridges said Monday. He hopes to break ground March 2, the 100th
anniversary of Alabama's archives.
Bridges, who has been director since 1982, said the building is bursting at
the seams.
"We're full," Bridges said. "We don't have any space. We would be very
limited in what we could bring in and preserve for the future without this
space."


Washington Post 10/11/00
Podesta denies stalling on e-mail search
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48540-2000Oct10.html

by George Lardner Jr.
White House chief of staff John D. Podesta testified yesterday that he has
demanded a concerted effort to search a massive amount of uninspected e-mail
for subpoenaed evidence, but he acknowledged that it won't be ready for a
close look until after the November elections.
Called as a witness in a civil case involving FBI background files, Podesta
said he was first told of the e-mail problem in June 1998 but thought it
could be easily fixed and assumed that it had been.
He said he didn't tell President Clinton about the still unresolved "computer
glitch" until shortly before a February 2000 press briefing on the issue.
Podesta conceded that the president went too far in claiming as he did at the
briefing that "we are in full compliance" with all the subpoenas and document
requests that had been served on the White House in recent years. None of
Clinton's aides told him that, Podesta said.



World Net Daily 10/11/00
Judge to unseal e-mail documents
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_sperry_news/20001011_xnspy_judge_to_u.sht

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by Paul Sperry
WASHINGTON -- Just when it appeared the Project X e-mail mini-trial had come
to a close -- with President Clinton's top aide yesterday denying he knew
about a trove of unsearched e-mail during the Lewinsky probe -- the federal
judge hearing the civil case announced he will unseal documents from a
related criminal probe.
Independent counsel Robert Ray and special Justice Department prosecutor
Robert Conrad have been briefing U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on their
investigations into obstruction charges in the e-mail scandal. They've also
shared evidence with him.
Lamberth said he'll "unseal" the evidence and release it starting today. It
wasn't immediately clear what information the documents hold, but sources say
it may relate to new clues uncovered by a federal grand jury.


Las Vegas Sun 10/11/00
Ray: White House lawyers hold facts
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2000/oct/11/101100384.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Independent Counsel Robert Ray's office has accused a
former White House attorney of "inaccurate testimony" and suggested to a
judge that presidential lawyers made it difficult for investigators to find
subpoenaed documents.
Ray's office took the rare step of intervening in an unrelated civil case
involving missing White House e-mails to draw the judge's attention to the
practices of President Clinton's lawyers during the 1998 investigation that
led to his impeachment.
Though not a party to the lawsuit, "this office has an obligation to assure
that inaccurate testimony is corrected," Deputy Independent Counsel Jay
Apperson wrote in a letter dated Oct. 5. The letter was made public
Wednesday.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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