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Commissioner
also wants to
make insurance
more affordable
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George
W. Bush’s pick for Texas insur
ance commissioner said Monday
he wants to beef up fraud-fighting
efforts and plans to meet with a
grand jury that has accused the
state of lax enforcement.
“Fraud is very definitely a
major problem,” Elton Bomer, a
former state lawmaker from
Montalba, told a Senate Fi
nance subcommittee.
Bomer said he’ll meet Feb. 8
with a Travis County grand jury
that last month sent Bush a letter
accusing the Texas Department of
Insurance of failing to investigate
fraud and citing “undue influence
from the industry.”
Bomer, who is awaiting Sen
ate confirmation, said he re
quested the grand jury meeting
“to try to get at the root of the
problem.”
Texas Department of Insur
ance funding to fight fraud has
dropped 33 percent since 1993,
from $3.5 million to $2.3 mil
lion, Bomer said. He said he
would like to move money from
other, unspecified areas to
strengthen anti-fraud efforts.
“I think it needs to be in
creased,” he said.
Outgoing Insurance Commis
sioner Rebecca Lightsey, who
appeared before the subcom
mittee with Bomer, noted that
the state auditor already is re
viewing the matter at her re
quest to see “what changes
need to be made, if any.”
Bomer also said he planned
to continue efforts at the
agency that are aimed at ensur
ing insurance is available and
affordable for Texans.
Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, D-
Austin, told him about an
Austin man who was informed
that his insurance was canceled
because “his business was on
the wrong side of town.” Bomer
said he has asked Barrientos
for details on that case.
Bomer told reporters that, if
asked, he would consider taking
another look at anti-discrimina
tion rules recently approved by
Ms. Lightsey for Texas insurers.
Bush had asked her to hold off on
such major action because her
term ends Feb. 1.
British investigator
criticizes Waco raid
Families of victims take
legal action against
federal authorities
MANCHESTER, England
(AP) — A senior British police
man on Monday criticized U.S.
handling of the 1993 siege in
Waco, Texas, where 79 mem
bers of the Branch Davidian
cult died.
The raid by the U.S. Bureau
of Alcohol, T ah a c c o and
Firearms was “doomed from the
start” said Detective Chief Su
perintendent Albert Yates at an
inquest into the deaths of 23
Britons in Waco.
Ten of the victims came from
Manchester, and the inquest
was held at the request of the
Manchester coroner.
Yates said an important as
pect of the inquest “is allowing
the families of those who died
to stand up and ask questions.”
Families of the British vic
tims are joining in a multimil-
lion-dollar legal action in the
United States against federal
authorities, whom they accuse
of bungling the siege.
A report by the U.S. Justice
Department criticized FBI han
dling of the incident but blamed
the deaths of sect leader David
Koresh.
The raid, in which four U.S.
agents and six sect members
died, led to a 51-day stand-off
at the Mount Carmel Center
and was followed by an inferno
in which the others died.
Yates said the raid Feb. 28,
1993 had very little, if any,
chance of success.
“It put, quite clearly, police
officers and those within the
Mount Carmel center at unnec
essary risk of tragic conse
quences,” he said. “All was lost
from the- moment the agents ar
rived outside the center.”
Former cop
questioned
about death
of two sons
HOUSTON (AP) — A for
mer Houston police officer suf
fering from a shotgun wound
to his chest was questioned
Monday about the deaths of
his two young sons who were
found murdered at his home.
Frank Anthony Picone, 31,
drove himself to the Spring
Branch Memorial Hospital
emergency room Sunday
evening with a gaping wound
to his chest, Houston police
spokesman Robert Hurst said.
Picone, who was in stable
condition Monday, told offi
cers he had been shot at his
home. On arrival at the sec
ond-story condominium, po
lice found the bodies of 15-
month-old Julian Picone and
5-year-old Franco Picone. The
boys, who live with their
mother, were visiting their fa
ther for the weekend. The
couple is divorced.
The infant, apparently
drowned, was found “laying
on the floor in the bathroom
outside the bathtub. The
bathtub had about 6 inches of
water in it,” Hurst said.
Franco, apparently asleep
when he died, was shot in the
back with the same gun that
wounded his father, authori
ties said. The gun was found
next to the boy’s body.
Police called Picone, fired
from the force last August af
ter less than a year, a suspect
but did not immediately
charge him with the murders.
He was questioned by officers
in his hospital bed Monday.
Hurst stopped short of say
ing Picone’s shotgun wound
was self-inflicted, but doctors
said it was a close-range
wound surrounded by gun
powder burns.
Dr. Dimitris Kyriazis, a
surgeon who worked on Pi
cone, said the man didn’t say
how he had been shot when
he walked into the emergency
room Sunday with the 3-inch-
by-3-inch wound.
“He didn’t say anything.
He was in severe pain, mostly
asking for pain medication,”
Kyriazis said.
Hurst said Picone was
fired by the police depart
ment after violating depart
ment rules, but refused to
further characterize reasons
for the dismissal.
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