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THE ENQUIRER LOCAL NEWS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011 C7 Motoric Weinland: IRS is following the church money 4 Honor Roll redone tubes." A website dedicated to debunking Weinland's prophesies calculated how much money would have to have been invested to make that kind of return on the dollar: about $300,000. Weinland hints that the Swiss bank account might have caught the attention of the IRS in his October 2008 sermon. "We have some monies in Europe that are set aside," he said. "I'm just going to be real blunt with everybody because there are those who find fault with us in our government. OK" According to federal court records, the IRS served a summons on Weinland's daughter, Audra Little, in August 2009 to testify in support of a criminal investigation into Weinland.

Little was the bookkeeper for her father's church and served as his personal assistant, according to those records. The summons was served on Little at 11:05 a.m. on a Monday while she was at her father's house. She is listed as owning a home a few miles from Weinland's $357,000 house. Her father's church doesn't own a building in Northern Kentucky or Greater Cincinnati.

The church's website lists a Cincinnati post office box and an AOL email address. Little tried to assert her Fifth Amendment right not to testify, but a magistrate ordered her to appear before an IRS special agent to answer questions. It is not known what she said, but she would have still been able to assert her Fifth Amendment rights by refusing to answer specific questions that could incriminate her. According to court records, prosecutors were also trying to summon officials from nine banks: Fifth Third, PNC, JP Morgan Chase, Wachovia Securities, National City, Charter One, American Express, Huntington and From Page CI with the Internal Revenue Service. The indictment claims Weinland failed to report the existence of that account.

Weinland, once a member of the Church of God, created a breakaway church several years ago named Church of God Preparing for the Kingdom of God. He prophesizes to members about the end of the world. In extensive writing posted on his website, Weinland said the United States will collapse, causing World War III. He claims in two books sold on the Internet that the collapse will culminate in the annihilation of the human race in May. Several people familiar with Weinland's church declined to speak on the record about him.

They described the church as a group of several hundred people around the world. Most groups gather to listen to Weinland's weekly Internet broadcasts, they said, adding a few groups rent conference rooms to worship. During a sermon originally audiocast in January 2003, Weinland said he was traveling to Zurich to open bank accounts investing in euros and Swiss francs. "I'm going to Switzerland next week, two weeks," he said. 'To put monies in the church over there, into Swiss francs and into euros, to give us time." In a sermon delivered in May 2003 from Portland, Weinland laughed about how great the returns had been on his foreign investment.

"We've already made around 25, 30 thousand dollars in a few months time, just by putting that money over there," he said. "Astounding. Astounding. We'd put a lot more in, but that's what it's all about. Not just helping us to prepare for things in the future that ought to shock you that this dollar is going down the From Page CI shiny granite surface.

"Never thought I'd live to see this thing rebuilt," said Meyer, a retired attorney from Lawrenceville, Georgia. He gazed at the crowd. "I'm surprised so many people showed up." They came carrying faded photos of young soldiers in uniform. They came wearing their dad's fatigue jackets and overseas caps. They came waving small flags, courtesy of Johanna Meng of Clifton.

"My dad (Alexander Meng) is on there," she said and nodded toward the monument as she passed out the flags she bought for the day. "Dad, who died in 1978, loved the flag," she added. "On Veterans Day, he would march us kids, holding a big flag, from the garage to the flagpole in the front yard. So, I'm doing this for him." She fell silent as the flag rose to the top of the Honor Roll's new flagpole. A breeze gently gave it a flutter as Steve Watt, a bagpiper with the Hamilton County Sheriffs Office Pipe Drum Corps, played "God Bless America." The pipes and the monument produced bittersweet tears for Otto German.

"Dad came up short," said a tearful German of Green Township. He watched his girlfriend, Maria Berke-meyer, place tracing paper over the name of his late father, Ed German. "He died suddenly Sept. 12," German said. "He talked and talked about coming down here for this special day.

"Now, he's up there," he said, looking into the cloudless blue sky. "He's very proud." A promise kept to bring new life to the Mohawk Honor Roll The first Mohawk Honor Roll was entirely paid for by donations from members of the community and dedi- The EnquirerGlenn Hartong Members of American Legion Post 534 stand with their rifles at parade rest at the re-dedication of the Mohawk Honor Roll war memorial at West McMick-en and Ravine Streets on Friday afternoon. Paying for the memorial The unpaid portion of the bill to rebuild the Mohawk Honor Roll stands at $9,000 for the granite plaques inscribed with 607 names of World War II veterans from the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mohawk. For information or to make a tax-deductible contribution, visit www.kyohx-treme.commohawkhonorroll.htm or call 513-377-2988. The website includes a complete list of the names on the new monument.

cated on Nov. 18, 1945. By 1988, the monument was a mess. Plaques were missing. The city planned to clear the site for a turn lane.

Charles Barnett, the monument's neighbor, stopped those plans. He bought the Honor Roll for $1 and maintained it as best he could. He planted flowers, cut the grass, picked up trash and tried to repair cracks in the mortar. A series of Enquirer articles and photographs starting in 1998 noted how time, vandalism and decades of official neglect had taken their took. Mike Kirchgessner, an Army veteran from Green Township, read those stories and took his children to see the monument in 2007.

He was moved to make a promise: "I'll fix it." 'to J' -k I zi EftL If 4 lM As he said Friday: "Today, it's done." The job cost $30,000. No public funds were spent. Kirchgessner personally spent $9,000. During Friday's ceremony, Navy Lt. Commander Efimba Motale told the crowd: "One percent of our population today serves in the military." During World War II, 24 percent of Mohawk's population was in uniform.

"We were a feisty bunch in Mohawk," Meyer said. "We'd fight any time, any place, over anything. Nobody messed with us. If they did, they regretted it." He noted there were "a lot of guys like us in the service." That's why, he added, "we won the war." Barnett, the monument's caretaker and owner, stood back in the crowd and listened to the stories. He marveled at hundreds of people lining the sidewalks and the street corner.

"I'm surprised so many folks turned out," he said. "It's nice to see so many still care." Maddux, a Downtown jeweler, watched as the crowd swelled around him. Strangers shook his hand and thanked the 87-year-old veteran for serving America. "I was proud to serve," he said. "And, people should be proud that this monument has been rebuilt." He paused to shake more hands before asking: "Wonder how long this one is going to last?" That question has an easy answer: As long as people still care.

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The EnquirerGlenn Hartong Carol Louis of Flnneytown finds her father, William Louis', name etched in the stone on the Mohawk Honor Roll war memorial. William Louis served as a Marine in WWII. Her uncle and aunt's names are also on the memorial. REVIEWS OF THE BEST-HANDLING CARS. Confidence Comes Standard An oftiliar of rh.

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