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RAIN 6/08 Part 1: Fort Meigs, county records soaked, buy recommen dation



There are 18 stories in this posting.

Associated Press 6/6/01
Anti-Fraud agency fakes documents
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010606/pl/watchdog_fraud_2.html

by Larry Margasak
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon agency charged with rooting out fraud
destroyed documents and substituted fakes to win a passing grade in an audit
of its own operations, according to an internal inquiry.
``It's a very sad day indeed when the watchdog gets caught cheating,'' Sen.
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in
demanding to know more about the incident.

Boston Herald 6/6/01
Congress demands records on Mob probes
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/mob06062001.htm

by J.M. Lawrence
A Congressional panel yesterday issued a sweeping request for Justice
Department documents related to Mob investigations in Boston and vowed to
uncover how Massachusetts officials left two innocent men in prison for more
than 30 years.


Charleston Daily Mail 6/6/01
Land dispute continues in Putnam
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2001060640/

by Evadna Bartlett
WINFIELD -- A Kanawha County man has gone to court to make sure he gets his
tax bills.
John W. Parker filed suit in Putnam Circuit Court Tuesday seeking an order
to have his name recorded as owner of more than 30 portions of 2,100 acres
of the Bowyer Estate now listed in other names.


Topeka Capital-Journal
Glitch puts hitch into some tax records
http://cjonline.com/stories/060601/kan_taxglitch.shtml

Associated Press
Some Kansas taxpayers who made their 1998 payment on time got notices that
they owe penalties and interest.
The glitch affects payments made on April 15, 1999, for the 1998 tax year.
Computers at the Kansas Department of Revenue apparently labeled some of the
payments as late, according to department spokesman Scott Holeman.


San Francisco Bay Guardian 6/6/01
Conspiracy of secrecy?
http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/36/36rico_sb.html

by Rachel Brahinsky
DAWN CLEMENTS INSISTS that the city has records that might prove her case
that there's a conspiracy to defraud the city's public pension fund and the
Human Rights Commission's minority contracting program. And, she says,
officials are fighting to keep those records from her, in


The Herald News 6/6/01
County files get soaked in storage
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/city/j06records.htm

During a recent tour of storage areas, a Will County official found state's
attorney's files sitting in puddles of water and a ceiling collapsing on
apparent murder files.
On Tuesday, that official, Lynn Behringer, director of the county's
microfilm and copying department, recommended an overhaul of her department
that would include a central records storage system at the Nicholson Street
warehouse.


Chartattack 6/5/01
Found 19 million John Denver records
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2001/06/0510.cfm

Talk about your unbelievable fuck-ups. Somehow, 19 million John Denver
records managed to be sold without anyone taking note of the amount until
recently. During a complete audit of the late musician's catalogue, RCA
Records added the sales.


Cincinnati Enquirer 6/6/01
Letters Valued
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/06/06/loc_letters_valued.html

by Cindy Schroeder
COVINGTON - In life, Arthur "Buzzy" Ernst was a solitary figure. The
Covington native never married, had no children and spent most of his adult
life as a Big Band musician traveling the country.
Now others will know the story of the frugal man who left nearly $300,000 to
Senior Services of Northern Kentucky when he died last fall.

National Review 6/6/01
The Jenna Tapes
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york060601.shtml

by Byron York
Austin, Texas city lawyers have decided to send a tape recording of the 911
call that led to underage-drinking citations for 19-year-old presidential
daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush to the state attorney general's office for
a legal analysis of its contents, according to law enforcement officials.
The Austin police department has received several media requests for the
tape's release, but city lawyers, after listening to the recording, decided
to seek a legal opinion from the attorney general on whether the tape
contains information that should not be made public.

New York Times 6/6/01
Cutting Construction Chaos
http://www.nytimes.com/thestandard/standard_26800.html

by Mark Roberti
THESTANDARD.COM
NEW YORK - Tracy LeBlanc has less than five months left to convert two
rundown theaters in New York's Times Square into the world's largest toy
store. By Sept. 3, if all goes as planned, the senior architectural manager
for Toys 'R' Us and his team will have turned this steel skeleton into a
110,000-square-foot wonderland, complete with a 30-foot-tall mechanical
dinosaur, a 50-foot-tall Ferris wheel and a two-story Barbie town house.

OneNews 6/5/01
Fear for personal cervical records
http://onenews.nzoom.com/news_detail/0,1227,42661,00.html

A women's health group says planned law changes giving greater access to
women's cervical screening histories could damage the national screening
programme in the long term.
The proposals mean that medical experts auditing the programme will be able
to access personal clinical records held by doctors, nurses and hospitals,
without the women's consent.

Orange County Register 6/6/01
Showdown coming over state files on energy bids
http://www.ocregister.com/news/gouge00606cci.shtml

by Kimberly Kindy
SACRAMENTO - A Senate committee on Friday will demand that the state release
its own confidential bidding data and all internal memos detailing its $7
billion in electricity purchases -- placing it on a collis ion course with
the governor.
If the state Department of Water Resources refuses to turn over the
documents, the Senate Rules Committee has vowed to issue a subpoena by June
15 to force the issue.


WJXT News4Jax.com 6/6/01
Public defender changes ways documents are handled
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wjxt/20010606/lo/824707_1.html

A series of changes at the public defender's office comes one month after
Channel 4 revealed how confidential papers, including autopsy photos, had
somehow gotten outside the office.
Many of the confidential documents could be seen in plain view at the bottom
of an outside trash container. Others ended up stuffed inside a Fed-Ex
drop-off box. Those papers included some of the autopsy photos, a discovery
that seriously concerned the department.


Richmond Times Dispatch 6/4/01
Net access to Virginia's Past
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/archive/MGB63ZKIJNC.html

by Steve Clark
A remarkable collection of photographs, maps and written reports related to
Virginia's past goes online today.
The collection, known as the Virginia Historical Inventory, has been
digitized by The Library of Virginia, which received a $270,000 grant from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to make the collection available to the
public on the Internet.


The Tuscaloosa News 6/6/01
UA students unearth a hot find
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/6948newsarchivedstorypage.html

by Steve Reeves
A University of Alabama-led archaeological team searching for the origins of
Tabasco sauce has made some important - if not particularly spectacular -
discoveries less than a month after traveling to the Louisiana island
birthplace of the fiery condiment.


Reuters 6/6/01
Research Alert - Goldman initiates Iron Mountain
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010606/n66372898_2.html

NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs said it started investment
coverage on Wednesday of Iron Mountain Inc. (NYSE:IRM - news) with a market
outperformer rating for the company that specializes in records storage and
information management.


Toledo Blade 6/5/01
Fort Meigs face-lift unearths possible burial area
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73064234307500&Av
is=TO&Dato=20010605&Kategori=NEWS17&Lopenr=106050018&Ref=AR

by Robin Erb
The possibility of a long-lost cemetery, a critter hiding in an attic, and a
wasp nest the size of a trash can are just a few of the discoveries made
during the renovations of Fort Meigs in Perrysburg.
Yesterday, as gray clouds churned overhead, crews continued work on cedar
roofs of several blockhouses at the replica of the 1813 fort and supply
depot overlooking the Maumee River.


Toledo Blade 6/6/01
Army of volunteers is sought to search Maumee battlefield
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010606&Kate
gori=NEWS17&Lopenr=106060015&Ref=AR

by Robin Erb
Working in a muddy field tangled with cornstalks, archaeologists this week
hope to unearth more of the area's most famous land battle.
They're calling on locals using metal detectors and even the just plain
curious to help.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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