Lawyers file documents
detailing embezzlement
THE BATTALION Page 15
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1981
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scheme
IWC baseball results
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Baylor— A Mark Simon lead-
off homer and back-to-back shots
by Eric Smith and Jay Jeffrey
the nil Tuesday powered the Baylor
except:fears to a 7-3 non-conference vic-
wayi fory over Texas-Arlington.
| UTA came back in the night-
niversif lap, however, and earned a 5-3
ventaj; double-header split with the
«on Bears.
■Baylor is 11-11 and UTA is 13-
heHossO.
isforyaK TCU — Warren Oliver had
wive, four hits and drove in three runs
Tuesday to help pace the streaking
an guEfexas Christian Horned Frogs to a
Joints, double header sweep over In-
2-1 and 7-3.
TCU, after losing its first five
ics of the season, has won 13 of
its last 15.
TCU senior second baseman
Troy Brooks extended his streak of
consecutive successful stolen base
attempts to 15 with four steals dur
ing the afternoon.
Texas Tech — Kevin Rucker
knocked in seven runs to lead the
Texas Tech Red Raiders in Tues
day’s 21-15 win over Southeastern
Oklahoma State.
Rucker’s runs included a grand
slam homer, a two-run double and
a groundout. The Red Raiders are
now 16-10 on the year and 0-3 in
Southwest Conference play.
Texas — Randy Richards hit a
three-run homer to lead Texas to a
6-1 victory over Minnesota Tues
day to give the Longhorns a dou
bleheader sweep of the Gophers
Texas
ancer victim
attempts return
in non-conference action,
won the opener 6-1.
In the first game pitcher Robert
Gulley scattered eight hits over
five and two-thirds innings to earn
his third victory in three outings.
In the second game Richards’ blast
provided the only runs Texas
needed as Mike Withrow stretch
ed his record to 5-0, allowing just
two hits over the last four and two-
thirds innings.
The wins gave the No. 4 ranked
Longhorns a 33-3-1 record. Min
nesota dropped to 2-4.
Houston — Rayner Noble, Rob
Riley and Mike Minturn led the
Houston Cougars to a sweep of a
doubleheader against Southwest
ern Tuesday, squeaking by 4-3 in
the opener and trouncing the Pi-
rates 5-2 in the nightcap.
The wins up Houston’s season
record to 16-12, and Southwest
ern drops to 18-11.
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LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for
Wells Fargo Bank have filed more
than 1,000 pages of documents in
Superior Court which detailed an
alleged $21.3 million embezzle
ment scheme they claim involved
officials of Muhammad Ali Profes
sional Sports.
Included in the documents
were allegations former three
time heavyweight boxing cham
pion Muhammad Ali was given
more than $1 million of the $21.3
million. But there was nothing to
indicate Ali knew the money he
took had been embezzled.
The filing of the documents
Monday was the first legal action
taken in nearly two months in the
slow-moving investigation. Wells
Fargo had filed a suit late in Janu
ary, charging MAPS’ founder
Harold Smith, MAPS’ official and
former Wells Fargo Bank em
ployee Ben Lewis and others con
nected with the boxing promotion
firm in connection with the
alleged embezzlement.
In the documents released
Monday, William Esmond, assis
tant auditor for Wells Fargo, de
tailed the bank’s view of how
Smith embezzled the funds.
Esmond said the scheme involved
skimming funds off bank transac
tions between branches of the
bank. Lewis, according to
Esmond, knew the bank’s system
well enough to avoid setting off
security alarms within the system
for nearly two years.
“The manipulation of the
branch settlement by Mr. Lewis
resulted in the embezzlement and
theft of $21,305,705.18 from the
Beverly Drive office of Wells Far
go,” Esmond said in his docu
ments.
The payments to Ali, in the
form of Wells Fargo cashier’s
checks, were endorsed by Ali and
drawn on accounts held by
Muhammad Ali Professional
Sports, a boxing promoting firm to
which Ali lent his name, but with
which he had no working business
involvement.
The embezzlement scheme was
uncovered Jan. 23 and the two
leading characters in the drama—
Smith and Lewis — disappeared
the next day. Smith has since sur
faced and denied any wrongdoing
on his part. He said the bank was
involved with “organized crime fi
gures” and is using him as a scape
goat.
Lewis has not appeared public
ly since his disappearance Jan. 24.
Bank officials said they have
been unable to recover about $20
million of the missing funds. A
federal grand jury in Los Angeles
is gathering evidence in the
MAPS’ scandal.
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.■DALLAS — For one player at
1 SMU’s spring football practice just
ie y® being a walk-on is great.
A year ago, not many people
Mi would have thought Jeff Apodaca,
tuato! S0Vl 0 f former New Mexico Gov.
Jerry Apodaca, would ever play
itnci. th, game again. In fact, most of
the colleges that had been at the
li" young athlete’s door with scholar-
iletiw s hip offers had quietly slipped
»offes aw ay.
K The reason was simple. After
toprfi the fifth game of his highly suc
cessful senior year, Apodaca found
xpert, himself in a battle more serious
Ark# than any football game — he was
diagnosed as having cancer,
fansk I Fifteen months after hearing
irityol that not only his gridiron career,
loyali but his life, was threatened, the
5-9, 180 pound running back has
Hobs returned to the field, looking for a
down! spot on the SMU roster,
as tip An All-State candidate in his
senior year at Santa Fe High
—' School, Apodaca woke up one day
unable to urinate. His mother,
Clara Apodaca, says they took him
llA to the doctor but initially were not
* overly concerned.
Then a cancerous tumor was
found, large enough to cut off his
urinary tract.
f i “No one really thought it would
be cancer,’’ said his brother, Jerry
Apodaca Jr., a wide receiver for
(] H fi the University of New Mexico. “It
in) Jupset us a lot for the first few
months until we could learn to live
with it. And mother and father
1 ^ hurt a lot to see the pain Jeff was
sas : going through.”
“It will always stand out in my
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J . when my wife and I and the doctor
1 had to tell him he had cancer.”
r He said his son’s major concern
when he heard the news was
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“I think Jeff understands his
position,” said Barr. “He’s a very
mature individual. A lot of us don’t
ever have to face the fact we might
only have a year to live. About the
most he can hope for is a spot on
the junior varsity next year and to
earn a scholarship, a walk-on has
to establish himself as an integral
part of our top two teams. ”
Despite the difficulties of the
past 15 months, there has been no
attempt to hide his problem.
“People shouldn’t hide the fact
they have cancer,” his brother
said. “Sure it complicates life and
kills people, but I’m convinced a
total cure is just around the cor
ner. A few years ago, Jeff wouldn’t
have had a chance.”
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! i j, “For three or four days the doc-
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