The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, September 19, 1978--Page 5
GSA indictments expected soon
To the Freshmen: It wouldn't be'the
DEKE HOUSE
if there weren 't some rumors about it.
Just for the record,
Here are some of the things we're not:
TEKES QUARANTINED
MORTGAGED STARVING
Entirely GROSSE POINTE ARISTOCRATS
In the bar 24 hours a day, and so forth.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first
indictments from two grand jury
investigations of fraud withing the
General Services Administration
(GSA) could be handed down in about
eight weeks, a top Justice Department
official said yesterday.
But a second department official said
that the most advanced cases involve
"relatively low-level" persons.
, MEANWHILE, a congressional
"watchdog agency said fraud and
related white-collar crimes against the
government are not limited to the GSA
and that such illegal activities cost
taxpayers between $2.5 billion and $25
billion a year.
But officials of that agency, the
General Accounting Office, said the
estimate is at best "a wild guess."
"No one knows the magnitude of
fraud against the government," said
GAO Comptroller General Elmer
Staats. "Fraud is happening without
anyone knowing about it."
THE TESTIMONY came as the
Senate Government Affairs
subcommittee, chaired by Sen. Lawton
Chiles, (D-Fla.), held a hearing to learn
how various government investigations
of the GSA were progressing. Chiles'
* subcommittee on federal spending
practices and open government will
hear from GSA officials Tuesday.
Deputy Attorney General Benjamin
Civiletti told the subcommittee the
Carter administration has agreed to set
.up an interagency strike force to
coordinate the various investigations.
.He said investigators are looking into
allegations ranging over "six or seven
subjects."
Civiletti said investigations in
Baltimore and Washington were
proceeding well and predicted that
"fruits of the investigation will begin to
be produced'' in November. An
investigation in. Boston is not so, far
along, other Justice Department
officials said.
The Baltimore grand jury is looking
into alleged fraud at GSA self-service
stores and in use of government credit
cards. The Washington grand jury has
been investigating alleged bribery-and
fraud in contracting for repairs and
alterations to federal buildings in the
Washington area.
Civiletti gave no details of the
investigation, but in response to a
question by Chiles, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General John Keeney
indicated that the first indictments
likely would involve lower-level
government employees.
Assistant Attorney General Philip
Heymann told the subcommittee the
strike force would work well. He said
there was no need for the appointment
of a special prosecutor to handle the
investigation. Heymann also said
Charles Kirbo, the friend of President
Carter who has been named by the
President to assist in the proceedings,
will not be involved in any part of the
criminal investigation.
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Ex-clerks picket local book store
By MARTY LEVINE
Three former employes of the now-
closed Charing Cross Book Store- are
picketing Border's book store, charging
that the owners of Border's-who used
to own Charing Cross-sold that store to
keep them from unionizing.
The pickets charge that Tom and
Louis Border sold Charing Cross to that
store's manager, Kevin Sheets, after
employes Kathleen Beck and Marilyn
Churchill began organizing an IMM
(International Workers of the World)
union at the store.
THE PICKETERS hope to force the
Charing Cross store to re-open and hire
them back. But the original ownership
of the store is under question. Accor-
ding to the sales agreement signed
Friday between theBorders and Sheets,
Tom and Louis Borders had been sole
owner of the store.
"Tom and Louis. Borders owned
Charing Cross utterly and completely,"
Sheets said. tom Borders claims that
"up until Friday the 15th, Kevin Sheets
owned no stock and had no interest" in
the store.
"I don't believe it,' Beck said.
"When we (the employes) were in-
troduced to Kevin Sheets (in late July
1978), he was introduced as principal
stock holder."
Churchill said he and Beck were
handed a letter by Tom Borders when
they arrived for work last Saturday,
saying that the partnership with Sheets
was dissolved and that the store had
been sold, while not specifying to
whom. Tom Borders denies any par-
tnership with Sheets. He said the store
was sold "because we lost more money
this year than ever before-and
because of the impending legal costs,"
due to the IWW's attempt at unionizing
action. "We sold the store outright,"
Tom Borders said, and found the
charges of a lockout "not true at all."
Bilderback was dismissed from his,
job at Charing Cross on September 5,
according to Sheets, because out of the
scheduled 24 work days in August
Bilderback had only worked 3 complete
days. On the other 19, Sheets asserts,
Bilderback "Was either late, absent, or
left early."-
"I don't think this is even true accor-
ding to the time cards he (Sheets) filed
with the Michigan Employment
Securities Commission and the
National Labor Relations Board,"
Bilderback said, "He knew why I
wasn't there. He is just choosing not to
recognize that."
On September 6, Beck and Churchill
approached Sheets to discuss their
wages and benefits and present a notice
of unionization. Sheets called IWW
negotiator Eric Glatz and found that the
two employes had already signed their
union cards and paid their dues.
Beck and Churchill claim after this
date Sheets instituted a slew of new of
stricter rules at the Charing Cross Book
Store, and swiftly canceled Beck's
vacation which he had before approved.
Both Sheets and Borders deny any rule
changes during the last days of the
store's existence.
The charges of sex discrimination in
wages are being leveled because of the
hiring of Sheets' friend Kevin Lynch
two weeks ago at four dollars an hour
for carpentry. Beck and Churchill said
Lynch often worked as a regular em-
ploye, and therefore their lesser wages
of $3.75 per hour constitute sex
discrimination. After Bilderback was
dismissed, Churchill said "Lynch had a
regulartime card and was a regular
employe."
Benita Kaimowitz, a Border's em-
ployee, said there was no sex
discrimination in her store except for
unconscoius chivalry, and she said her
feelings representative of the store's
staff.
Glatz will file three unfair Labor
Practice grievances against the
Charing Cross Book Store with the
Michigan Employment Relations
Commission in Detroit today, and will
represent the IWW at a hearing about
the case's jurisdiction before the State
Lahr Relations Board at 11 am.
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relatives and friends went about the residents. The empress flew in from the
.grim task of identification, slapping capital on a military aircraft and
and striking themselves in their ritual stayed about two hours before
pf grief. The workers spirited the bodies returning home.
off for a hurried burial. Meanwhile, new tremors were feld
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hardsearth, scraping out shallow moments, but residents feared a second
graves. As the diggers 'struggled to quake.
keep up with the steady procession of An earthquake registering 6.5 on the
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