Payroll Swindle Probe Continues As FBI Hunts Founder
Grand Rapids authorities sort through about 10 million cancelled checks and a room full of financial records in a multi million dollar payroll service embezzlement case. James R. Redican, 37, founder of Computer Payroll & Accounting Services, is sought on a federal fugitive warrant for larceny by conversion. He allegedly embezzled 1.5 to 5 million from 600 client firms while using an alias and hiding in New York and Holland Michigan.
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Jeffery L. Sheler
Grand Rapids, Mich
UPI
Michigan
James R. Redican
Computer Payroll & Accounting Services
Redican
Kent County
Donald Johnston
Johnston
FBI
Gail
IRS Clean Up Invites Evasion
A congressional panel found the IRS overreacted to criticism of a sex and drinking spy operation. The cleanup dampened tax information gathering and may aid tax evaders, organized crime figures, and others. Rep. Vanik warned the changes hinder intelligence work and may encourage evasion. The panel reviewed Operation Leprechaun and IRS rules criticized as premature and unfortunate.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Charles A. Vanik
Ohio
IRS
Vanik
Ways and Means
Florida
Donald Alexander
Bomb Threat Shuts Albuquerque Airport Amid Evacuation
A bomb threat forced evacuation of Albuquerque International Airport delaying flights for over an hour. Security dogs searched the terminal with no explosives found. Aviation director Clyde Sharrer noted it followed the December LaGuardia attack and warned against assuming hoaxes.
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Albuquerque
N.M
UPI
Albuquerque International Airport
Clyde Sharrer
City Aviation
LaGuardia
New York City
Emergency Help Authorized as LA Hospitals Reopen in Strike Week
Public hospitals in Los Angeles, facing a doctor walkout into a second week, were allowed to hire emergency staff and discharge many noncritical patients. Thousands suspended private practice over malpractice premium hikes, shifting burden to county facilities while mothers and fracture cases were sent home early.
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Los Angeles
UPS
Los Angeles County
Liston Witherill
County Health Services Department
County Board of Supervisors
Kenneth Hahn
State Medical Association
Charles Bond
13 Work Wanted Remodeling and General Carpenter Help
Construction job ad seeking remodeling and general carpentry work with winter rates. Contact Lee Row at 263-6534 for details.
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Lee Row
Impasse On Deputy Pay In Spokane County
Spokane county sheriff deputies say they are at an impasse over a 1976 working agreement. They rejected the latest county offer, which officials say would fund a $50 uniform-purchase allowance. Deputies seek a 10 percent cost of living raise, but the county budget carries no provision for such an increase.
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Spokane
UPI
Ray Christiansen
Indians Given Fishing Run States Appeal River Ruling
Oregon and Washington appealed a federal court decision that would allot Indian tribes up to 50 percent of Columbia River salmon. At issue is enforcing a fair and equitable distribution of the spring Chinook run and regulating the fishery to meet the 50 percent share requirement for Indians.
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Portland
UPI
Oregon
Washington
Circuit Court of Appeals
Lee Johnson
U. S
Robert C. Belloni
Johnson
Shirley Hufstedler
Los Angeles
Eugene Wright
William Lindberg
Seattle
Belloni
Hufstedler
Columbia River
James H Johnson
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