Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 27, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local Winnipeg free june a7 playing Robin Hood costs grandma by Allison Bray staff reporter an income tax return preparer who adopted a Robin Hood Persona to get inflated refunds for 124 clients was fined More than and ordered to 18 months House arrest yesterday for tax Eva in what is the largest income tax fraud involving a tax preparer in the provinces provincial court judge Sam Minuk ordered the 66 year old grandmother to pay Back the she defrauded from Revenue Elaine Vandevyvere was also sentenced to an 18month conditional sentence to be served at she was also banned from Ever again preparing income tax returns for tax preparer fined for fraud others and ordered to perform Iso hours of Community service and attend psychological Mande who has four adult children and numerous grandchild pleaded guilty on 12 to 124 counts of income tax evasion for preparing bogus income tax returns for others from her Winnipeg she also pleaded guilty to one count of personal tax court heard Vandevyvere submit Ted false income tax returns Between 1989 and 1991 on behalf of 66 clients All of whom were unaware of what she had the ensuing Revenue Canada investigation of her clients and orders of repayment caused two jury convicts Trio in Gan related triple murder by Allison Bray staff reporter three men charged in a triple slaying on Semple Avenue last summer were found guilty last night of first degree after beginning deliberation at 4 the six woman jury announced they had found Robert Stewart Robert Elaine and Roger Kyle guilty shortly before 9 All three were sentenced to life in they will not be eligible for parole for 25 the jury rendered its verdict after almost six weeks of testimony As to How three men one an aspiring out Law biker and two in the wrong place at the wrong time met their deaths the trial heard from More than 30 police and 40 civilian witnesses who described what happened during the Early morning hours at a White Bunga Low in the quiet residential area of West the father of murder victim Stefan Heinz discovered the dead when he went to visit his who haunt showed up for he found Zur Tegges 222pound body seated on a living room Couch covered in an autopsy showed Zur Stegge had been shot twice and stabbed 34 including in the left the body of Jason Joseph was found in the laundry at the end of a Trail of blood leading from Zur Tegges the six foot 174 Pound Man died of multiple Stab an autopsy showed Gross had been stabbed 10 times each in the face and Chest and hit with a Blunt Likely a baseball at the Back of his disturbing wounds but it was Thomas Russell who bore the Brunt of the killers his hulking unnaturally mus cled and tattooed body was found lying in a fetal position at the Bottom of the basement the 250pound Man had been shot three in the buttocks and right and stabbed 36 he also suffered a variety of wounds to the head from a Blunt the most disturbing court was was a 13centimetre Gash across his neck that totally severed his jugular its almost As if someone tried to take his head a pathologist Testi at the outset of the Crown attorney George Dangerfield said the accused had planned to kill an associate of the Hells Angels biker because he was trying to mus Cle in on prostitution turf controlled by the Manitoba warriors Street Robert a Wannabe striker for the los bravos biker was running prostitutes in the area off main Street known As the Low As was Roger warriors the two Sander sons Are not members of various biker including Canadian Hells Angels pres ident Walter put in appear ances throughout the gang turf although Orowetz had biker con Zur Stegge just enjoyed the biker according to Gross had no known biker connections and was simply visiting his buddies when he was he and Zur Stegge were Dangerfield because they were the crowns Case entered on Testi Mony from Brent a 20year old former striker or would be member of the Manitoba he testified Roger Sanderson had con fessed to him a few Days after the Mur Ders that he had stabbed one victim in the hallway while Robert Sanderson shot the Stevenson also Testi fied he saw them leave with a gun and knife from a booze can on notre Dame Avenue the night of the but lawyers for the accused told the jury Stevenson testimony could not be they argued he concocted his Story in Hopes of getting a Deal on six outstanding criminal charges he still faces on other Stevenson is out of custody and under police pro further evidence was Given by Stevenson a 15yearold for Mer prostitute who worked for the she testified she saw the Trio leave their room at the Stock Exchange hotel with guns and knives on the night of the murders and return later with bloody clothes and jewelry belonging to the defence lawyers also raised doubts about her credibility and what they deemed was circumstantial Evi the Crown also relied on forensic including results of Dan tests positively linking some of the accused to their a bloody Palm print belonging to Robert tews was found on a dryer at the smeared with the blood of Gross and tews Dan was also found in a bloodstain on the Side door floor panel of Robert Sander sons Black Mercury believed to be the getaway look us up when vacationing in the Kenora Complete local events to Listii dealer local Ems s Loliar Luuy Yili p a Cwalin More Mohawk k a Nikko la Lull of ii suit k x k Loui Mcl police Kuji Lake of Chr Rudds ii available for Only 754 at the following and Jat Ray Melick vending Box locutions Maik lakes l inn Alie Park pc Mia Oll ivs tourism Lulu in ii Ontario clients to suffer nervous break including one who had to be Crown attorney Clyde Bond told another client and Friend of Vandevyvere was forced to sell her Home and move into a trailer Park when hit with a whopping repayment Bond As he said 17 other clients had to declare personal bankruptcy when hit with repayment orders from sever Al in some cases the repayment orders came to More than he added the fraud Cost another 10 clients More than in Legal and accounting fees to straighten out their tax none of the clients were subsequently charged with income tax but they were ordered to make repayments on the he Bond told court Vandevyvere Cre ated fictitious businesses inflated or created tax deductible expenses so that her clients would receive substantial income tax for she listed childcare expenses for nonexistent submitted rent receipts from homeowners and reported Busi Ness losses on fictitious but Bond said Vandevyvere was not motivated by in he said she Only charged her clients what they could afford to pay her for having their returns such As taking her out to he said psychiatric reports submitted at the trial found Vandevyvere was driven by a Robin Hood or fairy godmother like compulsion to help those in in he said she is in a state of financial need herself and will be hard pressed to pay the he said she could face a three month jail term if she defaults on her Vandevyvere Mary said a series of personal tragedies caused Vandevyvere to make a pact with god to help peo she said her client was later diagnosed As suffering from manic which caused Herto act frenetically and without in her misguided she thought she was helping Mcmanus kids night at Rainbow stage enter to win tickets for an evening at july mail or drop off entry to kids night South Pacific Winnipeg free press 1355 Mountain r2x3b6 i phone no kids club no registered nurses graduated from the school of nursing Between 1916 and the Misericordia nurses Union bids Farewell to the teachers and wishes to thank them for their dedication and Misericordia general Hospital school of nursing established 1916 closed 1997 c lease or rebate delivery allowance on Neon highline sports retail delivery allo Wame on any new intrepid a 17 noon Compo 21a Par r Low As Low As no charge Fth door or 675 retail allowance on All new 1997 ram 1500 Side air m i bag Ujj f k j453 1997 caravan 24t i no charge 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