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Settlement For Pension Fraud
Stolen Car
Reseller Sought
The Portland Police B ureau's
A uto T heft T ask Force, in coop
eration w ith C rim e Stoppers, is
asking for help in positively iden
tifying and apprehending an in
dividual that is selling "high-
end" stolen cars, which he claims
are “reconstructed,” but are not,
to unsuspecting buyers. N um er
ous F elony A rrest W arrants,
relating to A uto Theft are cu r
rently on file.
The suspect, know to P ort
la n d P o lic e as M ic h a e l
Lew kow icz, w ith a date o f birth
o f May 16, 1956, has also used
the names Rom an Bam as, Adam
Potocki, including various spell
Victims in Capital Consultants theft will get 60 cents on the dollar
ings o f Potocki, and a variety of
dates o f births. The suspect re
portedly has at least four different
O regon D rivers Licenses, in the
various nam es. In addition, the
suspect has been active in a num
ber o f other states.
The suspect, know as “M ichael
L ew kow icz,” is described as a
w hite m ale in his forties to fifties,
6 ’ 1 ” tall, 185 pounds, w ith brown
hair and green eyes. A photo of
the suspect is attached.
A uto T heft T ask Force D etec
tiv e s M ike B arn es an d John
W rigley are available to discuss
the cases in great detail. D etective
Barnes can be reached at (503)
Michael Lewkowicz
823-5089, or paged at ( 503 ) 940-
8963. D etective W rigley can be
reached at (503) 823-5072, or
paged at (503) 940-0282.
Crim e Stoppers is offering a
cash rew ard o f up to $ 1,000 for
inform ation that leads to an a r
rest in this case and callers do
not have to give their nam e. Call
Crim e Stoppers at (503) 823-
HELP.
(AP) — A judge has ap
proved a $ 142.5 million settle
ment of the 22 lawsuits brought
against Capital Consultants, the
failed Portland investment firm
that engaged in a massive
Ponzi-like scheme that cost
investors $355 million.
With proceeds from earlier
asset sales, the settlement will
allow payment of about 60
cents on the dol lar to the former
clients, primarily union pension
and benefit funds representing
more than 500,000 people.
“1 am unaware of any cases
of this magnitude returning this
percentage recovery,” U.S.
District Judge Garr King said
last Wednesday.
The settlem ent sum has
grown by $ 13.4 million since it
was originally announced in
May. Segal Advisors, a na
tional investment monitoring
firm that had been accused of
negligence by some of its cli
ents for not warning them
against Capital Consultants,
has agreed to pay$l 1.4million
to settle potential claims against
it. Accounting firms Deloitte
&
T ouche
and
P ric e w a te rh o u s e C o o p e rs
agreed to pay $ 1.8 million and
$200,000, respectively.
“We never thought we’d get
this much money back,” said
Dale Sabroski, business man
ager of Portland Local 320 of
the Laborers Union and a
trustee of the Oregon Labor-
ers-E m ployers H ealth and
Welfare Plan. “I think the at
torneys worked hard. If it
hadn’ t been for them, we prob
ably wouldn’t have gotten any
thing.”
Parole Granted in Hate Crime
Victim’s widow fails to convince board to keep inmate in prison
Spring Auto Lo
(AP) — The state parole
board has ordered the re
lease of the driver in a 1985
murder where a man was
stabbed to death in northeast
Portland because he was
black.
The decision came over
the objections of the victim’s
widow.
Randol L. Pachl, then 20,
and his friend Brian Hobson,
21, drove past 34-year-old
Stanley Reed as he was riding
home from work on his bi
cycle. Neither man knew
Reed.
Hobson leaned out of the
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car window and tried to stab
Reed, reportedly saying he
wanted to christen his knife
with a black m an’s blood, but
he missed. Pachl drove around
the block for a second try, and
Hobson got out of the car and
killed Reed.
Pachl, who has been in
prison for 16 years, will be
released on Oct. 21.
“Our decision was not to
minimize or justify this crime,”
said Diane Rea, head of the
Board of Parole and Post-
Prison Supervision.
“It’s difficult for the victim’s
family and the community to
understand that, but we had
to parole him because we’re
bound by the laws in effect
when he com m itted this
crime,” she said.
Pachl was sentenced to a
life term with a minimum of
10 years.
The law at the time held
that the board must release
an inmate unless “there’s a
finding he has a psychologi
cal condition that makes him ’
a danger today,” said Rea.
Pachl’s most recent psy--
chological evaluation con
cluded that he did not, she
said.
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Mentally Retarded Executions Wrong
by A nne G earan ,
A ssociated P ress W riter
W ASHINGTON — A di
vided Suprem e C ourt re
versed itself Thursday and
ruled that executing the men
tally retarded is unconstitu
tionally cruel.
The 6-3 ruling isconfmed to
mentally retarded defendants
convicted of murder and does
not address the constitutional
ity of capital punishment in
general.
The majority’s view reflects
changes in public attitudes on
the issue since the court de
clared such executions consti
tutional in 1989. Then, only
two states that used capital
punishment outlawed the prac
tice for the retarded. Now, 18
states prohibit it.
“It is not so much the num
ber of these states that is sig
nificant, but the consistency of
the direction of the change,”
Justice John Paul Stevens
wrote for the majority.
Chief Justice William H.
Rehnquist and Justices Antonin
Scalia and Clarence Thomas
d issented. The th ree, the
c o u rt's most conservative
members, telegraphed their
views earl ier this month, when
they complained bitterly about
reprieves the court majority
had granted to two Texas in
mates who claim they are re
tarded.
The court ruled in favor of a
Virginia inmate, Daryl Renard
Atkins, who was convicted of
shooting an Air Force enlisted
man for beer money in 1996.
Atkins’ lawyers say he has an
IQ of 59 and has never lived on
his own or held a job.
The most immediate effect
of the ruling will be in the 20
states that allowed execution
of the retarded up to now.
Presumably, dozens or perhaps
hundreds of inmates in those
states will now argue that they
are retarded, and that their
sentences should be converted
to life in prison.
In the future, the ruling will
mean that people arrested for
akilling will not face a potential
death sentence if they can
show they are retarded, gen
erally defined as having an IQ
of 7Q. or lower.
The dissenting justices said
the majority went too far in
looking at factors beyond the
state laws.
The majority puts too much
stock in opinion polls and the
views of national and interna
tional observers, Rehnquist
wrote.
“Believing this view to be
seriously mistaken, I dissent,”
Rehnquist said. R ehnquist
omitted the customary word
“respectfully” before "dis
sent.”
The case turned on the 8th
A m e n d m e n t’s p ro te c tio n
against “cruel and unusual pun
ishments,” and how to define'
those terms today.
Tim es change, and with
them public sentim ent about
what is appropriate punish
ment for various crim es, the
court has observed in the past.
For example, at various times
in the country’s history it was
considered acceptable to flog
people in public, or to ex
ecute th o se c o n v ic ted o f
rape.
Using elected legislatures as
a barometer, the court major
ity concluded that the public no
longer accepts the notion that
execution is appropriate for a
killer who may lack the intelli
gence to fully understand his
crime.
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(AP) — A recent study
shows that the state’s 2-year-
old teen driving law has signifi
cantly reduced the number of
young drivers involved in acci
dents that result in death or
injury, state officials said
Wednesday.
The law requires teen-agers
to receive formal driver train
ing plus 50 hours of supervised
driving time before getting their
license. To get a license, they
must have a learner’s permit
for six months.
For one year, newly li
censed teen-age drivers can 't
drive at night and the number
of passengers allowed in cars
driven by teen-agers is lim
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In 1998, before the law.
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driving when someone was
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In 2000, that number was
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number dropped another 10
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