Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Main Street pro client list keeps on growing every dope Jodie Foster had to her Home work for role in bombers got the first win of to near new season the weather Low pressure system will i bring showers and High cow details on Page d18 mcelebratingml25yearsmmjl me saturday free press inside forgot his wedges Mark Wurtz above forgot a couple of wedges in his hotel room and Rob Mcmillan remembered How to shoot a Good score yesterday at the Xerox Manitoba Wurtz retrieved his clubs and leads the last years Champi i just one stroke Back just another Volunteer the Winnipeg Folk festival has volunteers working to keep the operation running one of them free press music writer John Lyons reports on his experience swamped in Atikokan a year after a devastating flood hit the Northwestern Ontario Community of disaster Relief is just starting to trickle in Printer getting bigger Altona Fri Sens Canadas largest Book is undertaking an Simillion expansion later this thai hotel fire lethal scores of people died yesterday when a fire broke out in a resort hotel in no fire alarms went off to warn the hotel had no sprinklers and Emer gency exits had been locked to prevent guests from leaving today in your City Martha Brooks Mcnally Grant 8 antique motorcycle show and Swap meet Woodhaven Community 9 to 4 free live thoroughbred racing Assini Boia free admission and Index local and 7 Canada 6 world and 8 numbers on Page c5 business b11 classified d8 comics b2 deaths editorials a10 Faith c9 in 08 Jumble d19 tile net Reader and Ann Landers b3 movies b8 record july polite Larry who has been the Lead investigator on the said the bad Bills keep turning up in the hands of More Joe free press counterfeit chaos fake Bills from City sail across continent by Doug Nairne police reporter free press 1997 almost eight months after shutting Down one of the largest counterfeiting rings Ever discovered in the police Are mopping up what could turn out to be a us bogus us Bills that were cranked out on an offset press in Winnipeg last year Are turning up across North with business owners from Alaska to Hawaii getting caught with tills full of worthless police have investigated 300 cases in Winnipeg alone where the Money has turned recovering us Worth of the bogus the Money has also spread South of the creating such a problem that the United states secret service has become involved and sent a team to Winnipeg recently to somewhere out there has a Mother ode of this Money and it just keeps turning up again and again in the hands of More said Larry who has been the Lead investigator for the Winnipeg police flooded North showing up in More than 40 cities so with millions of dollars still unaccounted police believe the Money will have entered every major Centre on continent by the time it is All these Are some of the cities where the Money has police say they dont know exactly How much Money the ring printed Between late 1995 when they set up shop in a notre Dame Avenue business and novem Ber when their operation was but informants place it at Between million and of Only about has Ever been weve been Able to recover some of the but there is still quite a Large amount of it out said staff Blair Mccorrister of the property crimes weve shut off the but people still need to be very careful when they accept american Mccorrister said most of the Bills Are being quietly laundered in Small amounts through businesses and often go undetected until they reach a unlike much of the counter Feit Cash currently being which is photocopied using laser the Winnipeg Bills were printed the old fashioned Way with a press and High Quality police believe the Money is being held by several High ranking Mem Bers of the ring who Are still at and is being shuttled Between differ ent cities a step ahead of investigators the Cash is slowly being put circulation through who Pur Chase the Bills for Between 10 Peri cent and 20 per cent of their face and then try to spend them at unsuspecting continued please see James abuse Case widens claims was sexually assaulted by coach in Doug Nairne police reporter a Man who used to live in Winnipeg is claiming was sexually assaulted by hockey coach Graham James almost 20 years City police confirmed yesterday that shortly after James was convicted of sexually assaulting nil player Don Kennedy and another Man More than 350 a Man came Forward to Lay a five months the investigation is Complete and its findings turned Over to the officials have been examining the Case for More than a month and sources say charges May not be Laid because of the length of time that has passed since the alleged incidents and because of a Lack of i can confirm that we were involved As one part of a larger investigation into an allegation of sexual police spokesman Carl Shier we believe that the person making the allegations came to us because he lived Here at one Point and some of the incidents May have taken place last Kennedy predicted other players will come Forward As James news his parole in surprised More peo ple Haven come he said if everyone came James would be in jail a Long there Are a lot of other victims out the Man who made the allegation now lives in another Manitoba the ramp and police in Swift current and Moose jaw were also involved in the Shier continued please no charges James doing time in Rockwood 1425 7838500 hours monday Friday saturday s v oct Dpi accessories Ardmore a re user store ;