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NEWS BRIEFS BEFORE or AFTER Bank Robber Sets 17 Years; Judge Hits 'Revolving Door' By MARCIA KRAMER A convicted bank robber was sentenced yesterday to 17 years in jail after a federal judge has criticized the city's "revolving door" court system that allowed the defendant to have seven state arrests EACH CDE2CIUJS PERFORMANCE When You're Dining In The hbuiub without substantial imprisonment The defendant, Victor Holmes, 28, of You're in Madison Sq Garden 33rd St. 7th Ave. 947-3060 SEIM Fund Cut -Sparks Sit-In Abr tit 60 staffers and clients of the Bronx drop; abuse treatment program SERA staged a sit-in yesterday at the Office of Drug Abuse Services at the World Trade Center to protest a funding-cutoff. The demonstrators, who came with bedrolls and food, asked that Robert Munoz, recently removed as executive director of the program, be reinstated. About 100 of the office workers were sent home when the SERA demonstrators moved in about 12:30 pjn.

'Get Nadjari' Charge Denied The chairman of a state legislative committee investigating prosecutorial practices denied yesterday that hearings that are to start today are aimed at undercutting former Special State Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari in his race for Queens district attorney. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) termed "absolutely absurd" Republican assertions that the -three-day hearings were intended to "get 311 Pleasant was sentenced for his role in a Feb. 17, 1976, armed robbery of a Bankers Trust Co. branch at 116th St. and Madison in which a bank guard was shot During the proceedings, Manhattan Federal Judge Charles L.

Brieant charg accomplished by you without any real imposition of sentence, you figured you'd take a federally insured bank," said the judge. "You can't do that." He added that he was sentencing the defendant as a "general deterrent to people in the community like yourself." Federal prosecutor Ira Block said Holmes drove the getaway car and planned the robbery, which was carried out by two confederates. Trial evidence showed that no money was taken from the bank because of the recent installation of bulletproof "bandit barricades." a to a I I a Look for food bargains galore In the Daily News, Wednesday and Sunday. ed that the lenient treatment of the defendant by state officials for such offenses as possession of stolen property and petty larceny gave him the impetus to commit bigger crimes. "After all these things have been WW 's FrUel ol.

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Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau will be the first witness today before the hearings of the subcommittee on criminal justice. Nadjari will testify tomorrow. Gene Spagnoli Sentence Ex-Cop to Prison Term A former city cop was sentenced yesterday to three years in state prison for stealing more than $15,000 while ransacking an East Village apartment with three other cops during what was supposed to be a drug bust in late 1975. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Dennis Edwards imposed the sentence on Matthew Smith, 28, of 333 E. 30th but stayed its execution for 30 days, enabling Smith to appeal.

Smith was convicted last February of grand larceny, robbery and reckless endangerment. New FAIN Note Kept Secret A letter written apparently by the FALN, the Puerto Rican terrorist group, was found in a midtown phone booth by a telephone repairman yesterday morning but police refused to disclose its contents. The FALN has claimed responsibility for the bombing that killed four persons at the Fraunces Tavern in January 1975 and bombings in recent weeks at the FBI, Chrysler and Gulf and Western Buildings. The group usually leaves letters in phone booths before the blasts. Shelton Conversion to Begin A $6.4 million contract to convert the old Shelton Towers Hotel at Lexington Ave.

and E. 49th St. into an an intown Howard Johnson Motor Inn was announced yesterday by the Starret Housing Corp. A Starret subsidiary, Graphic Building Systems, will serve as general contractor for the work. A year from now, when work is finished, the hotel will have 650 rooms the largest in the Johnson chain a restaurant, health spa and swimming pboL The conversion is part of a general revival of the Waldorf-Astoria-Lexington Ave.

hotel district. Owen Moritz Beame Nantes Real Estate Commish Stephen Fisher, a mortgage broker and an expert in property management, was named by Mayor Beame yesterday as the city's real estate commissioner. Fisher, 48, succeeds Ira Duchan, who resigned last Nov. 15 amidst allegations of mismanagement in the department and investigations into the city's leasing programs. He Had a Gun, Say Police George Assimakou, 24, of 201 W.

110th St. held a toy gun at the time city police shot and killed him in front of the Midtown Theater, 2626 Broadway, on Sunday night, police said yesterday. Police said Assimakou was spoted "carrying a gun" by a passerby, who notified police. Officers Robert Stainkamp and Robert Elder shot and killed him after he reportedly refused to drop the gun as they had ordered. State Power Boss to Retire James Fitzpatrick who has been chairman of the State Power Authority since his appointment in 1963 by Gov.

Rockefeller, announced yesterday that he will retire "as soon as plans are completed for an orderly transition." Fitzpatrick, 61, said he was resigning his post to practice law and spend more time witn his family in Plattsburgh. GeeSpagnoli Harbor Pollution Is Monitored Pollution of water in the New York Harbor is being monitored by a detection device provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration base at Langley Air Force Field, Va, it was disclosed yesterday. The device uses sensors to detect and monitor bacteria from waste material dumped into coastal waters: demonstration test is being conducted just south, of the Statue of Liberty. Arthur Mulligan fmimmLi i pmm iz Andrea Oay. ondeHeeryo" izes 2 coreer Shop.

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