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Unrelated casesU. S. indicts 2 suburb officialsTUB CALUMET City police chid and the village manager of Brookfield were Indicted by federal grand Juries yesterday on separate charges.Police Chief Robert Hajcw-aii, 3. was charged with making false statements to the federal Small Business Admlnii-(ralion to obtain flood damage loans and then attempting to influence the testimony of witnesses called to testify to the grand Jury.Richard W. Scott, 47, the village manager, was charged with extorting nearly *10,000 from a free removal linn and submitting false Income tax returns.STEVEN OSTROWSKY. 31. a South Side auto parts dealer with crime syndicate links, was indicted along with Rajcwski.Ostrowsky, currently free on bond after being sentenced to 10 years In prison for transporting a car across sUto lines in a murder case, was charged by the grand jury with Joining Rajcwski in attempting to influence testimony of grard jury witnesses.The indictment returned j ct-tcrday stales that Ostrowsky and Rajcwski met with the witnesses In a Lansing night club, but does not stale what means were used- to influence their testimony.OSTROWSKY has Ucrn linked to William Dauber, an underworld muscleman for Jimmy Caluara, a crime syndicate rackets boss in the south suburbs.Rajcwski, a one-time Chicago police detective named police chief In Calumet City in July. 1972. obtained W.OOO in loons far flood damage to Iks apartment at 18S0 State St., in the suburb, after heavy ruins in August. 1972.Robcrt RajcwskiAThe grand Jury charged that Rajcwski submitted receipts showing $$31 paid for repair work that never was done.TTIE RECEIPTS listed thecontractor for the work ra Thomas Tocpfer, who is one of the witnesses whose testimony Rajcwski and Ostrowsky arc charged with trying to Influence.Tbo case was presented to the grand Jury by George GU-kcrson, and Michael F. O’Brien, assistant United States attorneys after Investigators, acting on an anonymous tip, obtained warrants to search Rajevrski’s home.A SEPARATE grand Jury charged Scott with extorting $9,832 from tire Illinois Shade Tree Corp. o! Det Plaines in 1971 and 1D72 by threatening to prevent the firm from doing business In Brookfield If u didn’t pay.Acting on c» Idencc presented by James Marcus, an assistant United States attorney, the J grand Jury aUn charged Scott j with understating his income on tax returns far 1967, tUSH. and 1972.
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