Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 0 n n 4 Winnipeg free september 1981 million Dollar fraud scheme blamed on mental illness continued from Page 1 unit which feeds information to the computers noticed the Box number 6ft several of the about the same employees working in the Quality evaluation unit also noticed the same handwriting on several other the director of the David became suspicious and called the commercial crime Section of the police traced the Box nun her to but decided not to charge a photo him instead they put surveillance on him to see what he would do on april police went to hurls Home and interviewed when he admitted the entire scheme he was a about month six refund Che ques amounting to were mailed to the Box where police intercepted the six refunds belonged to actual but hurl had altered the addresses so they would go to his Post office hurl told police he didst know what hed do with the he said he wanted to see if the scheme would work and he knew hed be caught because not to take anything away from the any Moron could have traced it the Post office Box to Crown counsel Mellon urged judge Ubienski to impose a jail sentence because hurl had been in a position of he said the scheme involved lengthy premeditation and methodical Mellon also said a jail sen tence would deter others who might be tempted to do the psychiatrist Stan testifying for the mid hurl suffer from a slow and progressive form of Schiwy phrenic which is manifested mostly in Yaren said hurl is not a danger to the but to himself because he is court was told that twice since hurl was arrested he attempted to commit suicide by taking More than 100 Yaren said the offence was the product of hurls distorted and added that he have committed the offence if he want mentally under Cross Yaren said Hurt be faking his illness be cause the disease so blatantly affects his Overall in court hurl sat absolutely still Tor three without Ever showing any emotion or making any judge Ubienski said hurls Case was an instance when a sentence should be individualized due to exceptional Cir we have Here an intelligent Young Man whose abilities were grossly impaired by mental illness which necessitates he added that when the Case is weighed it becomes apparent that it is More important to do what we can to Salvage the accused than it is to make him an example to in an interview following the taxation Centre director Green said officials Are confident the system in place is too Good for a fraud to be he admitted that while hurls attempt was not planned Well enough to we Are confident our system would pick up any sophisticated attempt report expects rents to double in 18 months Champagne Bath skydiver Bruce Maclaughlin of gets a Champagne Bath after setting a world skydiving record jumping Over municipal completed 235 jumps in a 24hour period to break the old Mark by two continued from Page 1 about 85 per cent of the people in Montreal Are renters and the Home owners Are having All the political he Lapierre said he was one of the first to speak in the private Liberal Cau Cus meeting and Many of the later speakers dealt chiefly with the plight of so he nabbed the two ministers again for a meeting and reemphasized his my main concern is that 1 want a two edged Lapierre said in an interview with the free it would be lacking a sense of reality if we go with a program for homeowners to help the ones who Are in dire Straits or whatever they Call it and leave the renters when former prime minister Joe Clark had his mortgage program be fore the we All said it was but the problem is that As of now the pressure has Only come from the Lapierre i want the program done the right if we wait until july when the renters Start it might be too Well have to wait for another Lapierre said the problem is that the renters have not yet Felt the reaction and Are not making their the government should anticipate the potential inequality and he our Job is to have a Little if we really want to help the ones who Are most in they renters Are going to be most in need very the report Lapierre used to make his Case contains intriguing it was prepared by Canada mortgage and housing it says that 34 per cent of Winnipeg Gers could have expected to own a Home of their own when mortgage rates were 13 per but at 21 per cent Only 12 per cent could fulfil their if rates now hovering around 22 per cent reach 23 per then Only a paltry nine per cent of Winnipeg Resi dents can Hope to achieve something 34 per cent could have expected a few years Only one in nine can expect to buy a House in but the figure is worse in Boom in Edmonton and Only one in 06 could buy a Home compared to one in six in t the report says people will lose their Homes from among the who will have to renew mortgages in 1981 and the who will have to renew them by the end of this those worst hit will be families which bought Homes in the last five years and the report says that Many will have to Cut out almost All idea of luxury to concentrate their efforts on keeping roofs Over their the report foresees a terrible regression in habitation conditions conditions which have not stopped improving in the past 35 in Concrete terms this Means that we will see waiting lists for habitat families sharing the same apart ments and Young people repressing their great traditions of Freedom and continuing to live with their Lapierre those who will have the privilege to live in their own residences will face rates at least double those now and that assessment is based Only on effects of interest rates discounting Normal increases to apartment owners Lapierre is not the Only Bac Bencher angry about the Quebec lib eral caucus chairman Jacques Olivier told the Cabinet it should bring Down a tax on Windfall Bank profits to take the pressure off both homeowners and Lapierre said the government needs a National policy on housing which would include renters a policy which would also involve both provincial and municipal he says the renters most endangered Are Young couples living in mod Ern those who live in older buildings face less according to the old buildings Are often paid off or partly paid off whereas new buildings Are financed to the tune of something like 95 per he said the Issue of whether renters will get a break has Likely been taken into account by part of the reason is that leaving renters to twist in the wind would open too political Gap for the new who would then be Able to claim that the real working people have been ignored by a government subsidizing the Rich and the not Only did they Register but Maceachen is a very Good he remembers Well the strategy we had when Joe Clark presented his Mort Gage deductibility we campaigned against that thing it was not it was just for the Hes political enough to remember it would be a total reverse from on our he said of the idea of ignoring renters in favor of Home Lapierre said the document he is referring to was stamped neither confidential nor cites tax assessment system out of professor says continued from Page 1 Dean said the system used in Manitoba to calculate the value of each property for tax purposes int accurate the result is that houses of equal value Arent taxed despite the fact both properties sold for the same Price at the same the Morris Home was assessed for taxes at while the Johnson Home was assessed at at the vital tax rate of just Over for every of assessed the Morris taxes work out to the provincial property tax credit reduces the Bill to while sewer and Watermain maintenance charges add for a final tally of the Johnsons paid the same but their higher assessment raised the total to with the the Bill is reduced to sewer and water maintenance added for a net tax bite of getting it Doest impress me very much to know in getting said you would think if you basically have the same Purchase same property and particularly the same youd be in the same tax nobody enjoys paying when it comes to Light youre paying More than you its not very Johnson is not similar discrepancies were found throughout the taxes on Homes were compared against other equal value Homes in the same school where the tax rates Are the each Home owners tax Bill was reduced by As a result of the Manitoba property tax credit charges excluded extra charges for special local improvements were excluded in order to make a straight comparison of the Basic taxes on the the largest tax spread occurred in the Central City area within the Boun Daries of Winnipeg school the taxes on the 26 equal value Homes surveyed ranged from to a difference of even though the tax rate was the the reason for the difference is that the Lowmax Home was assessed at for tax purposes while the High tax Home carried an assessment value of this Gap would be much smaller if the cites assessment was meeting the 10percent Dean As mentioned assessments on one Home should be no More than 10 per cent higher or lower than the average for All the other equal value Homes in the under this the differ ence Between the High and Low tax Bills among the 26 Homes surveyed should be no More than instead of the that was actually the comparison showed that eight of the 26 Central City homeowners were either Over assessed or under assessed and thus paid either too much or too Little this taxes charged on the remaining Homes fell within the acceptable the highest taxed Central City House in the at was 614 Centennial it was owned for 10 years by Vincenzo Moccia until he sold it for earlier this in an Moccia said Hes been Gyp Ped out of if the other Guy has the same Price House As me and Hes paying not even one i dont think that the taxes should be brought up or Down to meet the same he Earl whose House at 634 Campbell Street carried the Sec Ond highest tax Bill of those surveyed in the Central said he was going to consider appealing his i think probably if we Are paving too an Appeal is an if the Price of the House is the the taxes should be the i had no idea they were so among the seven Homes surveyed in fort Garry school Divi two were charged too much and two paid too this is because the Gap Between High and Low was but the acceptable Range under the 10percent Rule was much at in addition to the Central vital and fort Homes surveyed in the following areas were charged too much or too Little Boniface and East taxes on Homes surveyed in Char West Kildonan and Transcona were within the acceptable Range of taxes for Homes in those difference in East the difference Between the High and Low taxes on Homes should be no More than of the 18 Homes surveyed in that the highest Bill was and the lowest was a difference of in the acceptable Range was but the actual Range among the 15 Homes surveyed was in a difference of Between the High and Low is acceptable in the Survey of Only five Homes in that the actual difference was i a Canadian company Suna specials All popular Canadian limit 2 Cartons per family Purchase sunday photofinishing special 00 off photofinishing police shooting probe finished Colour print film c41 process continued from Page i As the Sanderson car was speeding from the one of the bullets hit the Sanderson youth in the Back and he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a the youth was later admitted to Hospital where he remained until wednesday when he was allowed to go two Days after the shooting the police department launched its own internal investigation into the Inci Dent to determine if the officers involved violated any departmental regulations governing when to fire their such investigations Are held whenever a member of the department has been involved in a at a news conference police chief Ken Johnston said the departments fou member shooting inquiry Board has completed its re View of the but he refused to comment on the findings until the attorney generals department completes its to do so might prejudice any other Independent inquiries being Johnston he that the shooting inquiry boards findings indicate to me that further action May be Neces sary within the department relating to this when asked by reporters what that further action1 May Johnston said it May be disciplinary action or it May not be disciplinary a he refused to elaborate Hymie a Winnipeg Law yer hired to represent the Sanderson said yesterday the family is still considering launching civil action against the police department because of the injury to their Weinstein said a decision on whether to launch civil proceedings wont be made until after the results of the police department and actor Ney generals department reviews Are he said the Sanderson youth was released from Hospital even though the Bullet remains lodged in his left the Grade 11 students doctors decided not to risk trying to remove the Bullet for the time the boys said in an interview earlier this week that his daughter and brother had stopped at the Stock Exchange hotel that night to pick up some he said his brother ran Back out to the car after he saw a Man with a gun in the Vendor when they started to drive away and saw two More men with guns they kept on going and that is when the shooting took the elder Sand Erson a was arrested inside the hotel Vendor moments after the shooting and was later charged with possessing a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the Public this offer is available every sunday now open sundays 12 noon to 6 supt Vilu 1375 a cod 1 i 1 hts 1 1 Pricw september 1961 Only right to ;