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afia kingpin jailed
r Brilab involvement
nited Press International
NlW ORLEANS — The
N BF 11 j a ^i n S of elderly
Ol ifiu kingpin Carlos Marcel
las a warning that no
lOiint of money or power
aise a person above the
h.S. Attorney John Volz
akf Saturday.
Marcello and Charles
ggnier, former state com-
iis|oner of administration,
/ere convicted of racketeer-
igin the 1981 Louisiana Bri-
iblrial. Marcello was jailed
iteFriday to await the start of
B^year prison sentence.
; “Nobody is above the law,”
■Volz, who served as chief
irose cutor in the 19-week
ftirt proceeding. “There
H\|been those who said Mr.
larcello and Mr. Roemer
lould never go to jail. We’ve
..■tained all along that was
ticorrect.
Tfhe system works for ev-
lody. I think the thing it
lows— 1 hope it shows — is
I not only poor people
ive to be responsible for
"hei/Bking the law,” Volz said.
ireclmJ.S. District Attorney
tloivv Sear, who presided
over the Brilab trial, gave
Roemer 10 days to get his
affairs in order before report
ing for his 3-year term.
The reputed “Little Man”
of Gulf Coast organized crime
was ordered to turn himself in
immediately because author
ities feared he might try to flee
the country before starting his
term.
Marcello was processed by
U.S. marshals and taken to the
Community Correctional
Center to await transfer to a
federal prison.
Volz said he was uncertain
how soon Marcello would be
eligible for parole but added
any such decision would be
pushed into the future by an
additional 10-year term hand
ed down on a California rack
eteering conviction.
In Shreveport, Roemer
said he was surprised by the
speed with which the 5th Cir
cuit turned down his appeal
— ruling on 300 pages of legal
briefs in five weeks rather
than five months.
Marcello and Roemer were
found guilty in the Louisiana
case in which undercover FBI
agents posed as insurance
salesmen willing to pay bribes
for lucrative state insurance
business.
Volz and Fades L. Hogue,
head of the Justice Depart
ment’s Organized Crime and
Racketeering Strike Force in
New Orleans, Thursday
asked Sear to put the two men
behind bars. The 5th Circuit
earlier this week refused to
overturn the men’s convic
tions.
After the 5th Circuit re
jected Marcello’s appeal, his
attorney, Arthur Lemann III,
said he would seek a re
hearing by a three-judge
panel of the appeals court. If
that bid failed, he said, he
would seek a review by the en
tire 11-judge panel and would
file a similar request with the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Federal court rules dictate
that after an appeals court up
holds a conviction and jail
sentence, it has 21 days to
order the trial judge to sign
papers ordering the convicted
felons to jail.
Senate Republicans bicker
Tax bills stalled by GOP
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
GOP-led Senate Budget Com
mittee is deadlocked over how
much to raise taxes next year,
not because of Democrats’ un
willingness to compromise, but
because the usually unified Re
publicans are divided over
Reaganomics.
In essence, the unruly Demo
crats and staid Republicans have
exchanged roles, and Senate Re
publican leaders are not quite
sure how to handle it.
On Tuesday, the committee
will try again to reach a consen
sus on how much to raise taxes
next year, the last key compo
nent of the 1984 budget resolu
tion the panel is drafting.
Democrats watched in
amusement last week as two of
the 12 Republicans on the com
mittee heatedly argued in public
whether supply-side economics,
the basis of President Reagan’s
economic policy, is working.
“We’ve flirted with supply-
side,” Sen. Mark Andrews, R-
N.D., told his Republican col
leagues Thursday. “It doesn’t
work in the face of high interest
rates. I think we have to increase
taxes if we’re going to be honest
with ourselves.”
“The notion of supply-side is
working fine,” shot back Sen.
William Armstrong, R-Colo.
He argued that lowering the
federal tax burden on workers
with Reagan’s income tax cuts
the past two years has led con
sumers to invest more money
and stimulate the economy and,
as a result, interest rates have
fallen.
“Supply-side didn’t bring the
rates down,” Andrews said. “It
was that $98 billion tax increase
bill that brought interest rates
down 5 or 6 percent.”
Committee chairman Pete
Domenici, R-N.M., his teeth
clenched, was forced to pound
his gavel to end the bickering
between the two.
But Andrews voted for a
Democratic proposal to raise
$30 billion in 1984 by repealing
the third year of the Reagan tax
cut program, which is scheduled
to take effect July 1. The plan
failed on an 11-11 tie vote.
With the Republicans di
vided, all other tax plans failed
also, and by nearly 2-to-l mar
gins.
Congress plans busy week
adriplegic wins millions
out-of-court settlement
lUnited Press International
LOS ANGELES — A college
jhomore who has been a
^■plegic since he was run
vijby a car over five years ago
I won a $4.5 million out-of-
iffereifjlettlernent.
:r ub: Court officials said Friday the
sav ltd is the largest personal in-
iBcase settlement ever
;ebean«etl in the North Central
'connA 01 ' Court District,
idits! “Ihasn’t really hit me yet,”
e Simileith Ritchie, 21. “Obvious-
I’m really happy.”
r (u jfchie will receive the money
in an-Operators and managers of
moursHorthridge shopping cen-
• e01 ,in whose parking lot he was
, pf j, under terms worked
e d tip conference wit h Superior
Inotpfl Judge Robert Schif-
ma::
^ The suit alleged the com-
talvdlnH operating the North-
l ievve lge Trade Mart were at fault
Somfraiise the parking lot was
poorly illuminated, lacked
speed bumps and speed signs
and had poor security.
Ritchie was 15 and a member
of the Calabasas High School
football team in 1977 when he
and two friends were hit by the
car in the mall parking lot.
Ritchie suffered a broken neck,
which made it impossible for
him to move his limbs.
His companions, Ted Leon
and Michael Weiner, were
awarded $75,000 and $25,000,
respectively, for their injuries.
Ritchie’s mother, Marcia Ritch
ie, who came upon the scene mi
nutes after the accident, will re
ceive $200,000 for emotional
distress.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Con
gress, stepping up its tempo,
hopes to act this week on a nuc
lear freeze resolution, aid for
jobless home-owners and a re
peal of tax withholding on in
terest and dividends. But its
1984 budget timetable keeps
slipping.
The Senate and House could
advance each piece of legislation
by the end of the week, but de
lays, scheduling problems and
other roadblocks could just as
easily produce a five-day tread
mill.
The docket includes: the nuc
lear freeze resolution, housing,
tax withholding and Nicaragua.
Once again on Wednesday,
the House will take up a resolu
tion calling for a mutual and
verifiable freeze on nuclear
weapons production by the Un
ited States and the Soviet Union.
Sponsors claim to have the
votes to pass the resolution and
already have turned back four
test votes on weakening amend
ments.
But still pending are other
amendments that would delay
final action, possibly throwing
the vote into the following week.
The House also plans work on
housing legislation, which it
bypassed last week. The bill in
cludes a $760 million authoriza
tion to help pay the mortgages
of unemployed workers facing
foreclosure.
The fund would go into effect
whenever the mortgage default
rate exceeded 1.3 percent
nationwide.
A similiar bill has been
approved by the Senate Banking
Committee but is not scheduled
this week.
Once again, the Senate is
grappling with a proposal to re
peal the 10 percent tax with
holding on interest and di
vidends, a move strongly
opposed by President Reagan.
Senate Republican leader Ho
ward Baker has told sponsors of
the repeal that he will permit
only three attempts to end a fili
buster against the proposal. The
first comes Tuesday, and the
backers believe they can muster
the needed 60 votes — if not
Tuesday, then Wednesday or
Thursday.
If the repeal gets through the
Senate, it will have more prob
lems. House leaders oppose the
legislation, and the bill will have
to be brought up by a petition
discharging the Ways and
Means Committee from juris
diction, always a difficult pro
cess.
In the final stage, the question
may rest on the ability of the
Senate and House to override a
promised Reagan veto.
Concern in Congress over
U.S. covert activities in Nicar
agua increased last week despite
assurances from Secretary of
State George Shultz and CIA
head William Casey that no U.S.
law has been violated.
Baker may call a secret session
of the Senate to brief members
on the situation in Central
America. So far, briefings have
been limited to the Senate and
House intelligence committees.
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