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Cisneros’ mistress testifies
Editing of taped conversations raises issue of tampering
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for
former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros
sought yesterday to quash prosecutors’
use of tapes secretly recorded by his ex
mistress, saying they constitute “tam
pered, inauthentic evi
dence” that should not
be allowed at his up
coming conspiracy trial.
“The tapes shouldn’t
come in,” Barry Simon,
a member of Cisneros’
high-priced legal de
fense team, said. “The
bottom line is the gov
ernment has advised
the court already ... they were tampered
with. End of story.”
Prosecutor Mark Jackowski acknowl
edged that Linda Jones had deleted por-
CISNEROS
tions of her taped phone conversations
with Cisneros, editing out passages where
she threatened him or that dealt with their
sex life or other people. But Jackowski
said the tapes are “relevant evidence.”
“She just edited out these offensive
passages or what she believed to be of
fensive passages,” Jackowski said, adding
that she destroyed the originals after mak
ing copies.
But he said only five of the 33 tapes the
government intends to use at Cisneros’ Sep
tember trial were altered. The independent
counsel’s office wants to use the tapes to
corroborate witness testimony that the for
mer Cabinet officer conspired with his one
time lover to conceal his “hush money”
payments to her, which exceeded $264,000.
U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin
voiced some concern.
“She’s editing the tapes and picking
out that which is good for her,” he said at
the pre-trial hearing, which is expected to
take a few days.
Jones, who ran afoul of the Cisneros
prosecutors and was put in prison in part
because she misrepresented the tapes as
originals, took the witness stand yester
day to sketch the extramarital affair and
her decision to begin taping Cisneros as
the highly-publicized relationship soured.
As Cisneros came under considera
tion for a Cabinet post and talked to Bill
Clinton’s advisers in late 1992, Jones
said she became increasingly worried
that the payments would cease. She
said Cisneros told her Clinton officials
in Little Rock, Ark., had cautioned him
the support “looked like hush money,
blackmail.”
Five injured in
bus accident
HUNGERFORD, Texas (AP) —
Five people were injured yester
day when a bus carrying 30 pas
sengers overturned on U.S. High
way 59, authorities said.
No one died in the 3:45 p.m.
accident 50 miles southwest of
Houston. Five injured passen
gers went to Gulf Coast Medical
Center in nearby Wharton.
The most serious injury was
a broken leg. The other four vic
tims were expected to be treat
ed and released.
Uninjured passengers con
tinued their trip from Brownsville
to Houston on a replacement
bus.
The cause of the accident
was unknown yesterday.
Man dies in roadside fight
SAN MARCOS (AP) — An Indiana mo
torist apparently was beaten to death after
confronting the occupants of two other
cars along Interstate 35, sheriff’s deputies
said.
Dave Starr, 40, of Kendallville, Ind.,
died on the highway shoulder just outside
San Marcos Friday night, according to po
lice. No arrests had been made by yester
day, the Hays County Sheriff’s Office said.
Autopsy results on Starr’s cause of
death were pending yesterday afternoon,
but officials said they believe he suffered
blunt force trauma.
Starr was driving a construction com
pany van with three passengers when he
pulled over to the side of the road and got
out. It was not clear why he pulled over.
A pickup truck with three men pulled in
front of the van, and a car with three or
four men stopped behind it, officials said.
“There was some type of altercation be
tween them and the occupants of two oth
er vehicles,” Sgt. Allen Bridges said. “The
people in the van from Indiana have vary
ing degrees of what happened because
there was so much going on.”
Bridges said Starr and his co-workers
from Total-Tower Service of Bloomington,
Ind., were driving a company van south
from Austin to San Antonio when the at
tack occurred.
Among the passengers in Starr’s van,
his brother-in-law Jeffery Knight of Long
Beach, Calif., was treated for injuries and
released. Jamie Nitcher of Knox, Ind., and
Joshua Donahue of Pleasant Lake, Ind.,
were not injured.
The two vehicles involved in the alter
cation were described as a late-model, red
Chevrolet or CMC extended-cab pickup oc
cupied by three or four men and a red
Chevrolet two-door Cavalier occupied by
three men.
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fluid power, consulting and technical
sales.
Jones said he was originally a business
management major and with 35 hours re
maining until graduation, he decided to
change his major to industrial distribution
after taking a class in the program.
“Industrial distribution is more hands
on,” Jones said. “Business classes were
more theoretical.”
Jones said industrial distribution uses
marketing, management and finance and
“scratches the surface of engineering. ”
He said the classes teach concepts to be
used after graduation, unlike some classes
which are taken to simply earn the credit.
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Jones said some students use the Ca
reer Center to find a job, but jobs can also
be found through Professional Associa
tion of Industrial Distribution (P.A.I.D.),
an organization run by students with pro
fessors as mentors.
“The program is like a family,” Jones
said. “Professors are open and friendly
and help with references and questions
about different companies.”
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cally, but the caliber of students
continues to rise. He said the
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Estrada advised that eighth
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corresponding rate for transfers
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