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Starchild man of mystery The Record-Eafle, Traverse City, Mich. 4W4, Friday, December 1177 (Continued from Page One) ship them to underprivileged Overseas. Fucetola added that the foundation was "defunct" and an application for an Internal Revenue Service tax exemption had been withdrawn. He said that the trust company and foundation were set up to "avoid" emphasizing that "there is a difference between legitimate tax and tax evasion." Fucetola is somewhat of an expert in that field, having been one of the organizers of a statewide tax revolt during 1976 that gained national attention. Fucetola said his only connection to the alleged front organizations was in his former capacity as Starchild's attorney, and as someone who leased Starchild space in family-owned offices 'in North Arlington, N.

J. Fucetola said he does not represent Starchild now and hasn't seen him for more than a year. In a telephone interview with the Record-Eagle last April, Starchild i a a i a organizations were set up as tax dodges or fronts for child pornography. He said, however, that Dyer Grossman, the New York man sought along with Shelden on criminal sexual conduct charges, may have "used" them as such. a oceanography institute were "post office box operations," Starchild said, but the institute had an active mailing list of 2,000.

In that phone Starchild said he was actively engaged in church activities and oceanography pursuits. In a later letter to this newspaper Starchild appeared to contradict earlier statements, claiming a his inv i organizations was "solely" to lend his name as incorporator. "Under the law an incorporator need have no interest in the corporation; his function ceases as soon as the corporation is charted by the State," he wrote. Tennessee authorities, however, say Starchild's name and the Church of the New Revelation turned up in their investigation into an illicit sex ring operating as the Tennessee Boys Farm. "There is no church," said Pete Bouldin, an investigator with the Tennessee Attorney General's office.

"It's just a referral agency which distributes the pornography around the country." The director of the farm, The Rev. Claudius I. (Bud) Vermilye has since been sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison following his conviction on 12 counts of crimes against nature and abetting others in such crimes. Among the items seized in a raid on the farm were photographs and films depicting homosexual acts between youths at the farm as well as a list of more than 270 "active sponsors," many of whom allegedly visited the farm and also allegedly engaged in homosexual acts with the boys. Shelden's name was listed among the sponsors.

The New Jersey man also took issue with the Record-Eagle's report that the name "Adam Starchild" was an alias. However, an investigation by the newspaper revealed that Starchild was born Malcolm McConahy. That investigation also appears to. refute further Starchild's claims that he has "never been involved in the kinds of immoral and illegal behavior reported in your article. Malcolm McConahy was convicted in 1968 of Title 18 U.S.

Code Sec. 1431 (mail a in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was sentenced Jan. 9, 1969 to one' year and one day on three counts of mail fraud, the sentences to be served concurrently.

McConahy, however, failed to appear April 21,1969 for sentence' to be carried out. His bond was revokedi and a bench warrant was issued for his, arrest one week later. McConahy went to England where he was arrested by Scotland Yard on forgery charges. Convicted of forging certificates of deposit on an English. bank, McConahy served four years in a London prison.

U.S. Marshals arrested McConahy on Feb. 8, 1974 as he stepped off a plane in New York. Charged with unlawful flight and bail jumping, McConahy was ex-), tradited to Wisconsin where he was convicted on the second charge and sentenced to an additional one year and one day. McConahy remained in custody of the U.S.

Marshal pending appeal of his conviction but, finally, in May, 1974, he was transported to-Sandstone Prison in Minnesota to begin serving his concurrent sentences. He was released from federal prison in July, 1974. In September of that year, the 27- year-old McConahy turned up in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., asking to be declared indigent so he could subpoena records of the City of London without the mandated pre-payment of service fees, according to the Bergen County Record. McConahy was attempting to retrieve three Panamanian charters for offshore mutual funds which Scotland Yard seiz- ed when it arrested him for forgery.

Loss of those documents, McConahy claimed, cost him 1855,000, the newspaper reported. In that same time frame, however, Adam Starchild' was setting up the Church of the New Revelation and other tax-exempt organizations that police suspect of being "fronts" for the child pornography industry. In February, 1976, a photograph since identified by New Jersey sources as the man known to them as Malcolm McConahy appeared in a gay newspaper with the nameline of Adam Starehild: "President Ford probably doesn't know it," The Advocate wrote, "but he gave a Presidential Sports Award to an openly gay business consultant. Adam Starchild, vice-president of West Hudson Business Service, Kearny, N.J., received the award certificate signed by the President for his canoe peditions through the Quetico-Superior wilderness area of Minnesota and Ontario." One month later, this obituary appeared in a weekly newspaper, the Kearny Observer, on March 4: "Malcolm McConahy, of 325 Maple was killed in an auto accident in Minneapolis, Minn, while visiting relatives. McConahy was the sales manager for the West Hudson Business Service and recently opened his own consulting firm, McConahy Associates, is i by a brother in Tennessee." In May, 1976, McConahy reappeared in Bergen County courthouse where he sought dismissal of a lawsuit which he had filed a year earlier against his mother.

Another suit, this one against the Commercial and Farmers Bank of California, was dismissed in Bergen County and refiled in California June 16, 1976, courthouse records show. In that suit, McConahy claimed that he had sold the Trust Co. of Jamaica to a John Schlmeier for $50,000, but after all documents were transferred to the bank, the "fellow didn't pay and engaged in fradulent transactions which made the firm worthless." That trust company may have been the forerunner of the Trust Co. of the West Indies, Ltd. PEOPLE do read claiiified adi, you're reading one now.

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