Victim Crime Compensation Across States
A study notes Washington pays victims while others lag. Harold Taylor, 81, has received $10,098 after six muggings, yet Ruth Pitt in Fort Lauderdale received only minimal aid. Federal bills propose grants to states to cover about half the cost, with opposition citing federal overreach and budget limits. states vary from no money to generous payouts, with California New York Washington and Minnesota among examples.
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Harold Taylor
Washington
Seattle
Pitt
New Jersey
North Dakota
Rhode Island
U.S. Congress
Congress
Louisiana
Senate
House
Peter Rodino
House Judiciary Committee
Hodine
Wiggins
California
New York
Hawaii
States
Alaska
Delaware
Illinois
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Nevada
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Winslow
From New York to California Baby Selling Ring Exposed
New York investigators uncovered a national baby black market run by New York lawyers charging up to 10000 per child. The network locates unwed pregnant women across states and persuades them to sell their babies with hospitals doctors abortion clinics and lawyers referring mothers to brokers. Prosecutors have charged lawyers nationwide over three years amid triggering newspaper investigations. A New Jersey woman’s 28 year old case sparked the first major break.
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New York
Manhattan
Morgenthau
New Jersey
Ban on lie detectors in private business urged
The Privacy Protection Study Commission will urge a ban on lie detectors in private business and push for limits on insurance data gathering and greater credit file access. Willis Ware said the panel would also call for protecting confidential information, with polygraphs and psychological stress evaluators singled out as prohibited methods. The recommendations cover private sectors only, not law enforcement, and aim to curb invasive data collection before presenting to President Carter and Congress in June.
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Uaitherobumg
Privacy Protection Study Commission
Willis Ware
Sware
A.rand Corp
Commission
Ware
Consumer Credit Reform Aims to Let Access and Copy Files
A proposal would overhaul medical financial and personal history disclosures. A single commission urges ending open ended forms and allowing consumers to see and copy their credit files. Current law only requires disclosure, not sale of files.
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Commission
Ware
Street kids thwart FBI extortion plot in Midtown cash heist
East Side schoolkids seized a $10,000 suitcase hidden in a trash can intended as ransom for a bank extortionist. Authorities staged several drops, but two groups of youths helped themselves twice, then fled as undercover officers moved in. The extortionist vanished, and later the money was recovered with no injuries.
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New York
KNS
East Side
FBI
City
G-men
Feds
Lloyd Nolan
Shapp campaign funds probe touches Harrisburg dinner
FBI inquiries focus on a July 7 1976 dinner at the governor's Harrisburg mansion where Shapp supporters discussed soliciting geographic-distant funds to qualify for federal matching money. Norval Reece and Dr. Peter Brill described money targets and campaign labor at the table. Eleanor Elias, tied to large fundraising, is named in related FEC investigations for illegal contributions in Texas Georgia and Alabama.
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Washington
FBI
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
Federal Election Commission
FEC
Shapp
Harrisburg
Norval Reece
Commerce
Peter Brill
Dr. Brill
University of Pennsylvania
Mooney
Norval
Brill
Eleanor Elias
Elias
Texas
Georgia
Alabama
Tampa decoy prostitute seeks $2500 from police
Brenda Bowden claims police promised her $1 per arrest for four months as a paid confidential informant and says the city owes her $2,500. Police acknowledge she worked for the vice squad but investigate payments and counts, with potential lawsuits brewing as 20 to 30 men were arrested nightly on soliciting for prostitution along Dale Mabry in 1975.
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Social Security
Tampa
Fla
Brenda Bowden
Charles Otero
Otero
Miss Bowden
Vice Squad
Dale Mabry
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