Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fraud try to Benefit Charity by Pamela Fayerman the former mayor of a Saskatchewan town was heavily addicted valium and in debt from a Stock mar Ket loss when he attempted to defraud the lotteries commission of court was told pleading guilty to the charge in provincial judges Joseph Gabriel the former mayor of was Given a six month conditional discharge by judge John and ordered to donate to a Chari to of his Tremblay Harry came to court armed with a stack of letters of reference from prominent Saskatchewan citizens on Tremblay including the chief Justice of the Saskatchewan court of Justice Culliton wrote he was unpleasantly surprised and shocked when i Learned of the charge such conduct is so contrary to his Normal i am sure the Mere laying of the charge will be More than sufficient to ensure that he will never again be involved with the Crimi Nal flew to Winnipeg Crown counsel Bob Morrison told the court Tremblay presented an altered super loto ticket to the Western Canada lotteries foundation in Winni Peg on March he had changed the first two numbers on the ticket so that instead of being Worth it would yield lottery were sus after a Security Check they found an interruption in the design on the and the numbers on the when were not divisible by a secret after police had looked through Tremblay Bank he admitted to the telling them he flew to Winnipeg to Cash the ticket because he was in trouble Crown counsel Bob relying on information from said there was no Way the court could treat the Case As a Sloppy careless want a bad Job there was a level of expertise it want a bad Job at the police Morrison in his Walsh said that after Selling his farm equipment Busi Ness in 1979 for Tremblay began buying Oil options in the Stock by the Stock Market was in a real and Tremblay was wiped his whole lifes efforts Are gone and in a desperate attempt to recoup his he began buying lottery tickets by the handful and taking valium to assist in calming Walsh said Tremblay has an exemplary life with the exception of this isolated Walsh said that he would have Trou ble assembling a similar Batch of let ters of reference if he were Ever in he said that without a a criminal record would prevent Tremblay from being licensed to sell real something he now wants to judge Enns said that while it was not for the courts to comment on lotteries in he did have concern about the Wisdom of lotteries and qualms about the rightness of Ken flee press 0 Winnipeg free october 1981 3 pitch safety first equipped with safety Teeth goalie mask and lots of Bemidji University Field hockey goaltender Penny Euing Worth prepares for a Corner shot workout prior to a game with the University of Manitoba team the Minnesota team was in town for a today exhibition tournament that ends students feel transit fares Are delegation to approach City Hall monday in attempt to have rates reduced by Manfred Jager the University and Community College students who must get them selves to school and Back each Day suffer More from increased transit fares than meets the says Tim the president of the univer sity of Manitoba students last Rigby headed a student delegation to Winnipeg works and operations committee pleading for transit fare Relief for the students either by charging them Only 50 cents a Selling them monthly passes for instead of or giving them the Opportunity to buy a four month pass for the City turned the request Down and Rigby is preparing to make another appearance before the committee at its next regular meeting were not giving the fare increase this summer May have been a minor difficulty for students in the eyes of the officials at City but they Hurt our people far More than youd because there just one More seemingly Little thing to pile on top of so Many other seemingly Small things such As tuition fee Rigby he said he knows of cases where various Cost increases have forced University students to take a year out from their studies and ear i enough Money to tide them Over for subsequent full time academic the Umsu president said the cites projected Revenue loss calculations accompanying the denial of the request for Relief were based on 12 months of transit use by he the students request was for eight months Case of University Stu dents and ten months in the Case of red River Community College Stu Rigby said the City transit depart ments refusal to ease the financial Burden on endorsed by works and operations has not been made based on the but rather that the facts have been made based on the i am shocked and frustrated by the Quality of information presented to works and operations committee by the transit in a Brief the students will present to works and operations committee Mon Rigby argues the three student unions should be Given another hear this time before City by Paul Mooney attorney general Gerry Mercier and conservative la Len Dornino Are using a government funded information Booklet to seek votes in the upcoming election the 55page booklets on family Law Are available at no charge but they Cost the government 25 cents each to More than of the pamphlets Worth More than were distributed by Domino Over the past several weeks to residents of Wolseley where he is seeking the conservative the which Deal mainly with divorce Are accompanied by a letter signed by Domino asking constituents to vote for aside from an attempt to buy the move wastes Money be cause the material is of Little use to people who Are already who want to remain single or Are happily said Murdoch progressive party candidate in worse replaced Wilson there Are a great Many of those people who have no need of it and to that extent its a waste of government Mackay if he wants to i delivered this in a great Guy and vote for that but in sure that people Arent that la for Matthews i was appointed earlier this year to represent both St Matthews and Wol Seley after the former la Bob exhausted All appeals of his drug related conspiracy Manitoba Liberal Leader Doug who is running in worse said Dominos motive in Blanket ing the constituency with the pamphlets is to win votes rather than perform an information its clearly inappropriate to use this distribution in a purely political con its very clearly election Materi Lauchlan he added that who is run Ning in Norbert has included with the pamphlets a vote seeking letter printed on government Mercier be reached for com using Public Money Lauchlan said both cases Are exam Ples of the tories using Public Money for their own election its now filtered Down to the constituency Myrna Wolseley nip Candi said Domino could have saved taxpayers Money by sending out a letter offering to deliver copies of the pamphlet to those who wanted there will be single elderly people and people with perfectly Happy marriages where having the information int Phillips said she found the letter very annoying because in her View Domino and his colleagues were opposed to Large scale family Law Reform but brought in the new Law under pressure from women in the letter accompanying each Domino called the new Law the Best in Canada and said he was personally proud of the legislation be cause he had a hand in drafting the second last paragraph of the letter reads i believe that making sure people know about the rights and protections the Law offers is an important part of your Las if that makes sense to Domino vote for me i Hope youll vote for me when election Day gets in an Domino admitted that part of the reason for sending out the booklets was to gamer electoral the letter is the whole process were involved in is trying to get in not in the business of losing he added that his political opponents have an equal right to pick up As Many copies As they want and distribute woman in critical condition a British Columbia woman remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit of the health sciences Centre after being jolted from her husbands grasp by an Sutof control car and crushed against a building Anna Gravell of Powell was walking Handi hand with her husband on Portage Avenue when she was struck by a car which came up onto the pinning her Between the building and the the Force of the collision pulled the 30yearold woman out of her husbands doctors spent nine hours in surgery thursday attempting to repair Gravells crushed leg and she and her husband were visiting Winnipeg on a Cros Canada two other pedestrians were also in Terry of Colony was also pinned against the building by the she was treated in Hospital for a shoulder injury and re in provincial judges court yesterday Ernest Michael was charged with criminal negligence Caus ing bodily leaving the scene of an impaired driving and other Highway traffic act during a bail application yesterday defence counsel requested and was granted a remand until police have asked the assistance of anyone who might have been involved in or witnessed the Appeal court upholds Law society Dis barring Bass v o i 1 it 1 by Steve Pona Manitoba court of Appeal yesterday upheld a decision by the Law society of Manitoba Dis barring former City Law yer Jack Bass for professional misconduct in the improper use of a clients Trust who was disbarred last no vember after a hearing of the so Cletys discipline was found to have made improper use of All or part of a mortgage belonging to a 69yearold he has not repaid the three member Appeal court unanimously dismissed the disbarment Appeal without during the Justice Joseph Osullivan told Bass lawyer James Radford that he thought his Case was Justice Alfred Monnin said the affair was garbled and he could just visualize an attempt to hoodwink this who had retained Bass to collect the court was told Bass invested the Money without first obtaining the woman and then promised to repay her in with 15 per cent Bass was said to have used the Morley to pay mortgage arrears and costs for a company in which he held a 50percent and to pay its Winnipeg Hydro he also transferred to a Trust account for Warren court investments in which he was the Only repayment planned the woman Roger said in an interview yesterday his Cli now is to be repaid the Princi plus from the Law so Cletys reimbursement Bass was convicted by the society on second charge of misconduct for failing to maintain current or Complete failing to file an annual report and Over drawing individual clients Trust Secretary Graeme Garson said the society is considering eight other claims against former Law columnist for the Winnipeg Tribune and Par time instructor at the univer sity of Manitoba Law no criminal charges have been Radford argued yesterday for a one year rather than disbarment which he said is an unduly severe and harsh penalty under the Circum he contended there was no Evi Dence Bass intended to defraud or de Prive his client of her he believed he was properly invest ing the Money for the complainant and that she would be better off for making the said Rad in documents filed with the the society said Bass obtained the Money on and on suggested the woman invest it in what he termed a Good they agreed to discuss it the next at that Bass told her the Money had already been invested and she would get it Back with interest in four Bass told the discipline committee he intended to repay the complainant out of a refinancing although none was successfully he said he did not use the woman Money without first obtaining Kenneth lawyer for the Law said in a written submission that Bass conduct was reckless and there was a deliberate willingness to use a clients monies for personal perhaps in the wish Ful expectation that financial matters would so sort themselves out that re payment May be possible at some promised later he such improper use of a clients Trust funds is dishonourable and warrants Garson said Bass has no further Appeal available to him under the Law society he said the eight other claims against Are under Active not Cut and dried the society Secretary said the cases Are not As Cut and dried As the one already dealt Many of them relate to funds that were placed by it would perhaps in his capacity As investment and not As a Garson said the claims total More than if the Money is found to have been left solely for investment it May be the committee will say the Eckstein principle applies and they would decline to recommend in the Eckstein finally upheld by the Appeal court last the Law society decided it would not Reim Burse the Ruth Lydia for a investment she had Given a lawyer in a pizza her Stephen Richard had misappropriated the funds and was sentenced to prison for breach of Trust and Eckstein applied for but was turned the society ruled Simms had not been Given the invest ment in his professional capacity As a Eckstein but the court ruled the Law society act does not require the society to pay any whether qualified or Garson eight other claims ;