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SATURDAY JULY 13 2002 COLUMBUS LEDGER ENQUIRER wwwledger enquirercomnews A3 Man who videotaped police beating jailed Associated Press LOS ANGELES Just six days after Mitchell Crooks used a video camera to capture the violent arrest of a teenager by police the aspiring disc jockey was headed to jail Crooks was flown riday to Placer County in northern Cal ifornia where he has to serve a seven month sentence on an outstanding warrant said county Capt Rick Armstrong Crooks a 27 year old bystander videotaped the July 6 arrest of the black teenager at a gas station in suburban Inglewood The tape shows a white police officer slamming the handcuffed youth onto the trunk of a squad car and then punching him in the head On Thursday a security camera caught own arrest outside television studios in Hollywood As he was driven off he repeatedly screamed me help The warrant for Crooks was issued in May 1999 after he failed to surrender to begin a jail sentence for a conviction on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs hit and run and petty theft with a prior conviction Soon after his arrest Thurs day Crooks was taken before a grand jury to authenticate the videotape he had shot After ward his attorneys allege he was roughed up by investiga tors from the Los Angeles County district office who were angered that he appeared earlier absolutely believes it was attorney Dean Masserman said Masserman said Crooks had a sprained shoulder a cut finger numb ness in his hands and bruises TRIAL I Protesters reject proposal rom Al fines Almost nine hours after the sentencing session began seven of the eight protesters who pleaded guilty on Monday were sentenced The sentence was six months probation plus a $500 fine for those who promised to honor their and letter from ort Ben ning blocking their return onto the post for at least five years Of those who had previously been banned from ort Ben ning for trespassing only two drew less than the maximum prison time Abigail Miller of Harrisburg Va and Sum mer Lisa Nelson of Missoula Mont received 90 day prison terms and $500 fines They pleaded not guilty and were convicted after representing themselves during a Thursday trial One protester Rae Kramer of Syracuse NY received the six month prison sentence and a $5000 fine the maximum punishment allowed aircloth said his decision on the fine was based on a ability to pay Seven received $1000 fines with their prison sentences The Rev William the Berkeley Calif parish priest who sug gested he be sentenced to the institute so that he could return after six months and tell what really goes on there said the protesters had decided to reject the proposal The SOA Watch organizers of the protests for the last 12 years discussed the proposal for hours before rejecting it said SOA Watch community reminds me the primary goal is to shut the institute down Jhe priest said a far greater honor to be in prison for six months than to be a student in a campus for also said the con viction of 36 of the 37 protest ers by aircloth shows the of the court in matters underly ing anything military or SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN PRISON Maxwell Sadler of Waterville Maine with $2500 fine Kenneth Crowley 60 Houston educator with $1000 fine Mary Margaret Dean 37 Chicago children's physical therapist with $1000 fine Kathleen Desautels 64 Chicago Catholic nun Providence of St Mary of the Woods Toni lynn 56 Valyermo Calif Catholic worker Catherine ontanazza 53 Milwaukee teacher with $1000 fine Chantilly Geigle 19 Salem Ore peace activist with $1000 fine Peter A Gelderloos 19 Harrisonburg Va peace activist John Heid of Luck Wis The Rev Erik Johnson 57 Knoxville Tenn Presbyterian minister with $1000 fine Niklan Jones Lezama 38 Blacksburg Va peace activist Rae Kramer 55 Syracuse NY domestic vio'ence trainer with $5000 fine The Rev William O'Donnell 72 Berkeley Calif Catholic parish priest with $1000 fine was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $1000 The Rev Erik (T Johnson a Presbyterian minister from Knoxville Tenn had his code fendants and court spectators stand and sing the hymn Like a as part of his pre sentence message to aircloth He also condemned the institute at ort Benning where Latin American soldiers police officers and public offi cials are trained as festering violation like a and no better than the SOA that it replaced Johnson was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $1000 Niklan Jones Lezama of Blacksburg Va sang Bob 1960s protest song Michael Pasquale 33 Syracuse Catholic charities employment program director with $1000 fine The Rev Jerome Zawada 65 Cedar Lake Ind priestranciscan friar SENTENCED TO 90 DAYS IN PRISON The Rev Charles Booker Kirsch 41 of Ann Arbor Mich Presbyterian minister with $500 fine Kathleen Shields Boylan 58 Washington DC Catholic worker Jonna Cohen 20 Denver MacAllister College student Abigail Miller 23 Harrisonburg Va community worker with $500 fine Summer Lisa Nelson Missoula Mont environmentalist with $500 fine Susan Jean Daniels 41 Pembroke Va doctoral student Nancy Gowen 68 Richmond Va peace activist with $500 fine Palmer Legare Springfield Mass Springfield College student with $500 fine' Laura MacDonald 23 Syracuse Catholic worker with $500 fine Thomas Mahedy 39 of Wall Township NJ laborer in the with spectators joining along He spoke for 55 minutes con demning the United States as country founded on geno cide and and a nation that has more people than Adolf He also said court is a aircloth who rarely showed any reaction to the comments was visibly angered by Jones character ization of the nation and of his court He told him the country was founded on laws and his court is a part of that system of laws nations must have to function as a civilized society He sentenced Jones Lezama to six months in prison with no fine The Rev Jerome A Zawada a ranciscan priest from Cedar Richard Ring 33 Atlanta paralegal with $500 fine Michael Sobol 18 Denver graduated high school in May with $500 fine Janice Sevre Duszynska 52 Lexington Ky Catholic school teacher with $500 fine Louis Vitale 70 San rancisco ranciscan priest SENTENCED TO SIX PROBATION $500 INE Brigid Conarchy 23 Chicago Catholic community worker Linda Holzbaur 45 Ithaca NY Catholic worker Shannon McManimon 26 Philadelphia Catholic worker Ralph Madsen 68 Newtonville Mass retired elementary teacher David O'Neill and Jennifer Lee Sturgis Elkton Va husband and wife Leone Reinbold 24 Oakland Calif assistant harbormaster OUND NOT GUILTY Defendant Lisa Ann Hughes 36 of West Hartford Vt was found not guilty of trespass onto the military post Lake Ind said he has spent more than 30 months in federal prison protesting nuclear arms and is proud to be a part of the movement to close the insti tute at ort Benning message goes on We will close the SOA or the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or whatever it is Zawada said aircloth sentenced him to six months in prison with no fine our of the protesters chose to begin their prison sentences immediately and were removed to the Muscogee County Jail The remainder posted $250 bonds and will be allowed to report directly to prison when ordered to do so by the US Bureau of Prisons BUSH I Practices hurt investors rom Al switching the loan program to a stock option plan the debt was retired and Bush traded the 105000 shares for options on more than 42000 shares of Harken stock The White House maintains that Bush did not profit from the loans because he never exercised the options Howev er the practice of making loans to insiders has drawn criticism in the spate of recent scandals especially in the collapse of WorldCom Inc which lent its chief executive $400 million While not a common practice companies sometimes make loans to insiders for stock purchases in an effort to ensure that directors have a personal stake in the enterprise On Tuesday Bush said in a speech on Wall Street that the practice should be prohibited a posi tion the Senate endorsed on riday Insider trading In June 1990 Bush sold $848000 of Harken Stock two months before the company issued a bad quarterly report that sent the stock plummet ing Harken announced a $23 million loss in August causing shares to drop from $3 to $237 a share If Bush had prior knowledge of the loss and dumped the shares knowing they would plunge the sale may have constituted illegal insider trading The Securities and Exchange Commission investigated the trading and concluded in August 1991 that there was not sufficient evidence to conclude that Bush had traded on insider information Overshadowing the episode however is that Bush's father was then the presi dent leading to the perception that his eldest son may have received preferential treatment Late reporting Bush gave proper notice to the SEC that he intended to sell the Harken shares in 1990 This is required of company insiders under SEC rules However after the sale Bush violated SEC rules by waiting 34 weeks to report the sale and its terms Making public the purchases and sales of com pany stock by directors helps other investors gain valuable information that levels the playing field for all stock mar ket participants By filing the report late Bush indirectly hurt other investors But there is no rea son to think he gained person ally by the late filing Bush initially blamed the SEC for losing the forms but more recently his spokesman said the 34 week delay was due to a mix up with the attorneys Bush said on Mon day he did not know what happened Accounting practices In June 1989 Harken sold a subsidiary Aloha Petroleum to a group of its own insiders for $12 million and let them bor row most of the money from the company to make the acquisition Harken then booked the sale as immediate earnings which prompted an SEC investiga tion Under accounting rules income must be booked as it comes in but because Harken had made the $11 million loan that enabled insiders to make the purchase the SEC said the income should have been booked to future years Bush was a director and a member of the audit committee at the time The SEC forced the company to restate its earnings and in January 1991 the company re ported an additional loss of $9 million on top of the $3 million loss it had first claimed was an honest differ ence of opinion Sometimes things exactly black and white when it comes to ac counting Bush said on Monday when asked about the accounting problems While Bush may be right that logic lay behind the ac counting scandals that helped bring down Enron Tyco WorldCom and others tech niques aimed at inflating prof its and boosting stock prices Looking for a job that provides meaningful work and competitive compensation? 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