Ex Official Convicted In Scheme To Defraud SBA
Former SBA Richmond office head Thomas F Regan was found guilty on 13 counts including racketeering bribery and fraud for involvement in a large SBA fraud scheme. The jury returned the verdict after 13 hours of deliberation with Regan free on bond pending June 23 sentencing. case cited costs exceeding 800000 to banks and the agency.
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SBA
Richmond, Va
Small Business Administration
Thomas F. Regan
Regan
Richmond
U.S. District Court
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Terri
Florida
Rafsky
John Dowd
Justice Department
Dowd
Virginia
Charlottesville
Joseph C. Palumbo
Palumbo
Samuel R. Calabrese
Las Vegas
Nev
Memory of D Day Lives On by LYN JEWELL
Master Sergeant Henry L. Comer recalls Utah Beach landings on June 6 1944 with vivid fear and heat. A lifelong Army veteran he was wounded twice and earned two Purple Hearts later serving in Vietnam before retiring in 1970 with wife Fanny in Princeton.
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Henry L. Comer
Utah Beach
Normandy
Thorn Street
Princeton
Comer
Cheyburg
France
Paris
Hurricane Forest
London
Good Ole’ U.S.A
Vietnam
United States Army
E-8
Fanny
Pattie
Karen
Egypt orders Syrian diplomatic mission to leave Cairo
Egypt demands Syria's diplomatic mission exit within 48 hours after a mob burned the Egyptian embassy in Damascus in protest of the Sinai disengagement pact. The Foreign Ministry accuses Syrian intelligence agents of leading the assault and wounding Egyptians.
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Cairo
Egypt
Damascus
Syria
Foreign Ministry
Israel
Damasus
Libya
Federation of Arab Republics
Lebanon
Anwar Sadat
Sinai
Christian Militia Backs Syria in Lebanon Conflict
Christian militia leaders endorsed Syria's military intervention in the Lebanese civil war after meetings with Lebanon’s leaders. The move follows earlier resistance by some Christian factions who sought foreign guarantees and potential French peacekeeping deployment. Protests by leftist Muslims and Palestinian allies rose in Sidon and other areas as Syria consolidated its hold and halted near Beirut.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Flias Sarkis
Suleiman Franjieh
Hafez Assad
Damascus
Sinai
Egypt
Israel
Pierre Gemayel
Leba
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Sarkis
Kamal Jumblatt
Sidon
Mantelets Used In Charleston Expedition By British
The mantelet served as a movable shelter for assaulting fortifications. British engineer Moncrett employed prefabricated mantelets in the 1776 Charleston expedition against American positions. Each measured six feet by fourteen, stood on three feet, and required eighteen men to transport. They formed inner walls of a battey or redoubt.
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Moncrett
Charleston
Alumni Group Installs Officers in Bluefield Meeting
The Bluefield alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Davis on Jones Street Bluefield with Polemarch N. E. Baumgardner presiding. The group planned a June 10 dinner for wives and sweethearts and installed E. Baumgardner as Polemarch David Chapman as Vice Polemarch Roy L. Davis Keeper of Records Phillip Jefferson as Strategus and W A Holcombe as reporter and historian.
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Bluefield
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
Roy Davis
Jones Street
N. E. Baumgardner
E. Baumgardner
David Chapman
Roy L. Davis
Phillip Jefferson
W. A. Holcombe
Repairs Finish on West Virginia Turnpike Decks and Roadway
General Manager George A. McIntyre announced completion of resurfacing 31 bridge decks and nearly five miles of roadway on the West Virginia Turnpike. The project began in May, costing over 200000 dollars as part of a 18 million maintenance effort for the year. The commission also bought a Porta-Patcher, the only machine of its kind in the state, to recycle removed asphalt. New Orleans became capital of the French Territory of Louisiana in 1722.
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George A. McIntyre
West Virginia Turnpike Commission
West Virginia Turnpike
McIntyre
Commission
20 Nabbed In Raids In Manhattan Brothels
New York police arrested 20 people in dawn raids on brothels and massage parlors with 28 women held as suspected illegal aliens. District Attorney Morgenthau said operatives moved between parlors on the East Side and West 40s near Madison Square Garden, with charges including bribery conspiracy to commit murder promoting prostitution and patronizing a prostitute.
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New York
Manhattan
Robert M. Morgenthau
West 40S
Madison Square Garden
Morgenthau
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Gan
Sanford E. Rafsky
Lyn Jewell
Henry Comer
Non
Phalange Party
Camille Chamoun
National Liberal Party
Harmony Acres
Cresent
New Orleans
Duke of Orleans
Louisiana
Ser Don
Bluefield Virginia
U W
Hillcrest
Church OF Christ
Pocahontas
Joe Hall
Evangelist
Dad
Ameli’s Department Store
Bluewell
W. VA
Kammer
Armstrong
First Family
Maytag
Gemmer
Kammers
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