EAST IOWA The Gazette, Oct. 1, 2002 3B Decision on taping expected this week 'Ganske-Harkin probe transferred out of state By Rod Boshart The Gazette DES. MOINES Whether state criminal charges will be filed in a secret taping of a Greg Ganske strategy meeting could be decided soon, while a request for a federal probe of the incident has been transferred out of Iowa to avoid a conflict, officials said Monday. Polk County Attorney John Sarcone said he hoped to decide by week's end whether state criminal charges are warranted over a Sept. 3 incident in which a Ganske political meeting was secretly audiotaped by cohorts of Democratic rival Sen.
Tom Harkin. Iowa Republican Party Chairman Chuck Larson Jr. and Bill Armistead, manager of the Ganske for U.S. Senate campaign, have charged that state and federal laws were violated by the unauthorized activity and have requested criminal investigations of their allegations. Citing personal relationships with both Larson and Armistead, Steven Colloton, U.S.
Attorney for Iowa's southern district, recommended that he and his office "be recused from this matter to avoid even an appearance of partiality" a request accepted by Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis. Margolis, in a letter to Larson and Armistead, said he has assigned the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. The matter was transferred out of Iowa because the U.S. attorney for Iowa's northern district in Cedar Rapids is Larson's father, Charles Larson.
In Des Moines, police are investigating GOP claims that Ganske, a -term congressman seeking to oust Harkin from the U.S. Senate, was the victim of "Watergate-style dirty Candidates tes reject landfill site near Viola Dostal, Langston exchange views at C.R. meeting By Dick Hogan The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS Neither candidate for Linn County supervisor supports siting a new landfill on 565 acres near Viola. At Monday's Downtown Rotary Club meeting, Democratic challenger Linda Langston of Cedar Rapids and incumbent Republican Lumir Dostal of Marion rejected the site in answering a question from the audience. Langston said it's too far from the metro area and there are cultural concerns.
The site is adjacent to where Grant Wood painted one of his famous works, "Fall Plowing." Langston called for pulling business interests together to get a waste transfer station going. Langston added that it would probably be worthwhile for Bluestem to revisit the Hennessey site for a landfill. The Hennessey property, 425 acres on the southwest edge of Cedar Rapids, was condemned by Bluestem and then abandoned. Dostal, a Bluestem board member, mostly agreed. Dostal said he voted against the Viola site.
It's time to either build a transfer station and ship the waste or locate a landfill close to the metro area so there is no need for a transfer station, Dostal said. Langston said the county lacks leadership in some areas, primarily in economic development. The county's absence is most noticeable when others attempt to get local industry and business to expand, she said. The job is being left to the 2 arrested in burglary, assault in Waterloo WATERLOO Two Water- loo men arrested. Monday face charges in connection with a weekend burglary and sexual assault.
Curtis Austin, 23, was charged with first-degree burglary and possession of firearms as a felon. Walter Marshall, 17, was charged with first-degree burglary and second-degree sexual abuse. Police said money was taken and a 25-year-old woman was sexually assaulted after three suspects broke into her home about 9:45 p.m. Saturday. Austin and Marshall, who were being held in the Black Hawk County Jail last night, were arrested after police stopped a car Monday morning.
The third suspect remained at large. Sen. Tom Harkin Rep. Greg Ganske Opponent tricks" intended to harm his political campaign. "Hopefully, we'll conclude this by the end of the week," Sarcone said Monday.
"I would think, given the circ*mstances, that we ought to be able to get that done. We're going to try to conclude this promptly, but we're going to have a thorough investigation." Sarcone, a Democrat, said this was the first complaint of an alleged crime for secretly taping a political meeting in his tenure as Polk County's chief prosecutor. Given that it's an election year, he said he would not be surprised if there is criticism regardless of how the investigation turns out. "I'm sure claims will be made (of politics), but I think if you look at my history or the 12 years that I've been county attorney we've never let politics dictate what our decisions. are," he said.
"Decisions have always been made based on the law and the facts. That's what governs it, and that's what will govern this as well." Sarcone's comments came as the dust was still settling on Sunday evening's first face-toface meeting between Ganske and Harkin since the secret taping of the Sept. 3 Ganske meeting and dissemination of a transcript by a Harkin campaign researcher to a newspaper reporter came to light last month. Ganske used Sunday's radio debate to prod Harkin for a better explanation of his campaign's role in the taping scandal. Harkin had said it was the work of a junior research staffer who conspired with a 53- year -old ex-Harkin aide to tape and transcribe a meeting involving Ganske, 24 supporters and White House political director Ken Mehlman, who was connected via telephone from Washington.
"Tom Harkin could put an end to this real quick. He could tell what he knows and come clean," Ganske told reporters. "Otherwise, this is going to continue to dribble out and dribble out and I think that's really sad. Tom Harkin really missed a chance tonight to really level with the Iowa people." Harkin said an internal investigation conducted at his request determined a former aide, Raphael Ruthchild, 21, arranged with a former Harkin associate, Brian Conley, 53, a Des Moines businessman, to have Conley tape the meeting and Ruthchild spearheaded the effort to transcribe and disseminate it. The three-term senator said AP photo Picking apples at Cambridge Collins-Maxwell Elementary School's kindergarten students (left to right) Chantel Maxwell, Kaleb Smith and Colin Thomson pick apples with other classmates during their visit to Black's Center Grove Orchard on Friday in Cambridge.
C.R. family experiences pain of another young man's death By Cindy Hadish Linda Gilbert said from her The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS Linda Gilbert knows too well the pain of losing a family member. Her son, Tyrone Gilbert, was shot to death less than two years ago. His murder remains unsolved. Now her family is trying to cope with the death of another member.
Ronald Buckley, 20, died Saturday of rabies, said by health officials to be the first human rabies case in the state in more than 50 years. Tyrone Gilbert was 28 when he was shot to death on June 21, 2001, in southeast Cedar Rapids. "It's affecting the family," Karen Marie JEWELRY On sight jewelry repair. 3950 Center Point Rd. NE (319) 393-1370 Miss It! CEDAR RAPIDS, IA Don't ANTIQUE SHOW SALE U.S.
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Ruthchild and Conley have declined comment since being implicated in an incident that Harkin has described as a "Dennis the Menace caper." Steve. Wandro, a Des Moines attorney representing Ruthchild, said he and his client cannot comment "until we know where the dust will settle. "We don't know who's the target or what the crime is," Wandro said. "My reading of the law is that there has been no crime, but others read it. Contact the writer: (515) 243-7220 or ACLU backs privacy of clinic records DES MOINES (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union filed a friend-of the court brief Monday asking the Iowa Supreme.
Court to prevent police from obtaining pregnancy records at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Storm Lake. The Buena Vista County attorney obtained a subpoena in June ordering Planned Parent-. hood to provide him with the names and addresses of every woman who had had a positive pregnancy test at. the clinic over a nine month period. The office sought the information as part of an investigation into the death of a newborn, whose remains were found at a recycling center in May.
Planned Parenthood says the test results are confidential medical records. Monday was the deadline for Planned Parenthood and its defenders to file their briefs with the Iowa Supreme Court. Buena Vista County officials must file their briefs by Oct. 25, with Planned Parenthood having until Nov. 4 to reply.
Arguments are scheduled Dec. 9 before the Supreme Court. Lumir Linda Langston Incumbent Challenger city, chamber, Priority One and others, Langston added. Langston called for the supervisors to approve an extension of Highway 100 soon or the vital project may be lost. Dostal responded that the county backs Highway 100 but environmental issues need to be resolved.
Those involve the Rock Island Preserve near the road's corridor. Dostal said he believes those concerns will soon be addressed. Dostal, a lifelong Linn County resident, reminded Rotarians of his accomplishments in agriculture, as a Linn-Mar school board member and as county supervisor. Dostal said he advocates smart, organized growth for the county to ensure that the infrastructure keeps up with an increasing population. Dostal, in citing accomplishments during his eight years in office, pointed to the county's top Aaa bond rating, 6,500 acres of fine.
county parks, a new juvenile detention center, remodeling of the jail and new sheriff's offices and well-maintained bridges and roads. "I'd like to thank Linda for running a nice campaign. I guess it doesn't get dirty down at our level," Dostal quipped in closing. Contact the writer: (319) 398-8255 or dick.hogan@gazettecommunications.com C.R. news daily 19th Street SE, home.
"It's yet another young man dead. It's another senseless death." Gilbert said Buckley, her nephew, was more than a cousin to her son, Paul Gilbert. "He was his brother," she said. Buckley, a rapper known as Lil' Boutit, visited Gilbert's home frequently and she watched him grow up, she said. Buckley's mother and stepfather, Wanda and Ronald Tucker of Cedar Rapids, declined comment.
Gilbert said her favorite memories of Buckley were caught on videotape. He was in a group of tum- 66It's yet another young man dead. It's another senseless death. Linda Gilbert, mother of murder victim Tyrone Gilbert, and Ronald Buckley's aunt blers, doing backflips and jumps. "That memory, I'll cherish forever," she said.
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