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RAIN 817 Weekly Update: Legal (13)



The Virginian Pilot 7/24/02
Navy officer pleads guilty to stealing, falsifying records
By MATTHEW DOLAN
NORFOLK -- A Navy officer pleaded guilty today to stealing and selling military
surplus and falsifying service records to allow his junior sailors to receive awards
they never earned.
Ensign Kelvin G. Lee reached a deal with military prosecutors by admitting he
engaged in a conspiracy to steal and sell brass casings and stainless steel pallets
used to hold ordnance.
http://www.pilotonline.com/breaking/br0724ple.html


The Virginian Pilot 7/25/02
Ensign must leave Navy over theft, medal scam
By MATTHEW DOLAN
NORFOLK -- A military judge ordered a Navy officer dismissed from the service
Wednesday for stealing military surplus and falsifying records in a scam allowing
his junior sailors to receive awards they never earned.
http://www.pilotonline.com/military/ml0725lee.html


St. Petersburg Times 8/12/02
Treating the cavity in a
dentist's records
By KRIS HUNDLEY
A dentist who oversees 118 dental offices and has been in practice for 12 years might be expected to know how to keep patient records. But apparently that wasn't the case with Dr. Adam Diasti.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/08/12/Business/Treating_the_cavity_i.shtml


Houston Chronicle 8/12/02
A year later, Watkins' memo tip of iceberg
By TOM FOWLER
As the business world raised a collective eyebrow at the resignation of Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling a year ago this week, another executive inside the company was busy trying to raise alarms.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/topstory/1530788


Ledger-Inquirer 8/12/02
Feds Probe Md. Lt. Gov.'s Agency
STEPHEN MANNING
Associated Press Writer
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Federal prosecutors are seeking University of Maryland records to determine if grants the school received from a crime prevention agency headed
by Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend were used improperly.
Prosecutors asked for records from 21 grants totaling $6 million that university research centers received from the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, according to copies of two subpoenas released Monday by the school.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/nation/3854256.htm


NANDO Times 8/13/02
Politics: Court blocks FEC from releasing files
By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (August 13, 2002 10:00 p.m. EDT) - A court has barred the Federal Election Commission from releasing files on dozens of investigations to groups suing to try to overturn the nation's new campaign finance law.
http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/498213p-3971453c.html


Wall Street Journal 8/14/02
Is a Former Worker's E-Crusade Against Intel a Form of Trespass?
By ALLYCE BESS
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
When Ken Hamidi was fired from Intel Corp. in 1995 after a long workers' compensation battle, he didn't go quietly. Mr. Hamidi, 55 years old, spent the next two years criticizing the company in e-mails sent to thousands of co-workers. Convinced he was a victim of age discrimination, Mr. Hamidi even publicized his campaign by dressing as a cowboy and going on horseback to distribute printed versions of his messages to employees entering Intel's Folsom, Calif., facility, where he once worked.
Now, the California Supreme Court will determine whether the former employee's e-mail is a form of electronic trespassing, as Intel claims, or an _expression_ of free speech.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1029271682361815435-search,00.html?


The Florida Times-Union 8/14/02
Newspaper suing to force DCF to open missing children's files
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/081402/D7LD03V01.html



Daily Southtown 8/14/02
Meyer will let copying continue
By Howard Ludwig
Business writer
Meyer Medical Physicians Group promised a bankruptcy judge Tuesday it will allow the copying of patient files to resume at its Merrionette Park headquarters.
Attorneys for the doctors said a new agreement with Midwest Medical Records Associates is imminent, enabling the firm to resume copying patient histories as early as today.
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/141nd4.htm


Fort Worth Star-Telegram 8/15/02
You've got evidence
In the e-mail age, evidence there for investigators to find
By CONNIE CASS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Not since the glory days of letter-writing, before the advent of the telephone, have people committed so much revealing stuff to written form as they do
in the age of computers.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/3870775.htm


Washington Post 8/15/02
ImClone Sues Over Data Destruction
Firm Tells Waksal to Return Severance
By Ben White
NEW YORK, Aug. 14 -- ImClone Systems Inc. said today that it has filed suit against its founder and former chief executive, Samuel Waksal, claiming that he improperly ordered the destruction of documents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19562-2002Aug14.html



Washington Times 8/15/02
Database sought in probe of grants
By Stephen Manning
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal prosecutors yesterday subpoenaed a database tracking grant money distributed by a state crime office headed by Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20020815-92315840.htm



Star-Tribune 8/17/02
Fired employee sues, revealing strife at Department of Trade and Economic Development
Mark Brunswick
A former deputy commissioner in the state's Department of Trade and Economic Development is accusing Commissioner Rebecca Yanisch and others in a lawsuit
of wrongful termination, defamation and shredding documents that might show
employee cell phone abuses.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3170203.html


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