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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2007
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ARY 26, 2007
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Phil Driscoll, center, with his mother-in-law, Christine McDonald-Blankenship, left, and his wife, Donna Lynne, far left, leave the Hamilton County Court House in Chattanooga, Tenn., in this file photo from Aug. 31, 2005. A grammy-winning trumpeter, Driscoll was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison for using his gospel music ministry in an income-tax evasion scheme.
Now playing tax evasion
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Grammy-winning trumpeter Phil Driscoll was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison for using his gospel music ministry in an income-tax evasion scheme.
BY BILL POOVEY ASSOCIATED PRESS
U. S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier allowed Driscoll 45 days to report to prison and agreed to decide by that March 12 deadline on Driscoll's request to remain free while he appeals his conviction.
The white-haired trumpeter said at the sentencing that he "never intended to take any money from our government, the country that I love."
"I never took a dollar that I didn't sign for," Driscoll said. "The purpose
of my life was the gift that God gave me"
Last June, a jury found Driscoll 58, guilty on charges of conspiracy and tax evasion from 1996 through 1999.
An IRS agent testified at the trial that Driscoll and his wife improperly used his Mighty Horn Ministries to shield the money and evade $128,627 in taxes.
The indictment accused Driscoll and his wife, Lynne, of scheming with Lynne Driscoll's mother, bookkeeper Christine McDonald-Blankenship, to avoid reporting personal income totaling more than $1 million.
The jury acquitted Lynne Driscoll on the conspiracy count and dead-locked on a tax evasion charge that was later dismissed.
At the end of the sentencing.
Phil Driscoll's unpaid tax total was reduced to a range of more than $30,000 but less than $80,000.
Collier did not impose a fine on Driscoll and said no restitution was due.
Driscoll recorded with several pop acts in the 1970s, including Joe Cocker, Stephen Stills, Leon Russell and Blood, Sweat and Tears. He received a Grammy in 1984.
He recorded more than 30 of his own albums of gospel and patriotic music, which he distributes through his ministry and its Web site.
Driscoll performed "America" at the dedication ceremony for Bill Clinton's presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. The judge, who was appointed by the former president, said Clinton was among those who sent him letters on Driscoll's behalf.
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Technology revives cold case
BY KIM CURTIS ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — A fingerprint on a cigarette lighter, shotgun shells on and an informant helped lead to the arrests this week of eight men accused of killing a police officer in the 1970s, according to court papers released Thursday.
Some of the evidence was recovered using forensic techniques that didn't exist 30 years ago, according to the document, which was used to obtain an arrest warrant in the case.
Prosecutes say members of the Black Liberation Army, a violent offshoot of the Black Panthers, stormed the lobby of a San Francisco police station the night of Aug. 29, 1971, killing Sgt. John V. Young with a shotgun and injuring a civilian clerk with gunfire.
Prosecutors allege that Francisco Torres, Herman Bell and Henry Watson Jones staged the attack; that John Bowman, Richard Brown and Harold Taylor were the lookouts; and that Ray Michael Boudreaux and Ronald Bridgeforth were the getaway drivers.
Anthony Bottom was supposed
to be part of the attack team, but he was arrested the night before after attempting to fire a machine gun at a police sergeant, prosecutors say.
Bowman died of liver cancer in December, and Bridgeforth is believed to have fled the country. The seven others were arrested Tuesday on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. An eighth, Richard O'Neal, was charged with conspiracy.
On the night of the shotgun siege,
police recovered items including a
ball point pen, a key, a cigarette
lighter, shotgun shells and backshot.
Torres' lawyer did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Advances in the recovery of fingerprints helped a forensic investigator in 2003 match the prints on the lighter to Torres, according to the affidavit used to obtain his arrest warrant.
An unidentified informant, who was provided with immunity from prosecution and financial assistance for housing relocation, identified the men responsible for the attack in 2005, the affidavit said. The informant also told investigators that Bell criticized Torres for "dropping some item at the scene".
The affidavit also said that in 2004, an FBI investigator matched five of the 15 shotgun shells recovered from the crime scene to spent shells recovered from a shotgun found at Bell's New Orleans home in 1973. Police lost the shotgun in the years after it was recovered.
The Young case was reopened in 1999 and in 2005, but several suspects called to testify at grand jury hearings refused to testify both times.
Police also said that Bottom confessed to police in 1971 that he organized the police station attack.
Two years after the killing, Taylor and Bowman were arrested in New Orleans, but a judge dismissed the charges in 1976 because of allegations the men had been tortured by police officers during an interrogation. The duo became anti-torture advocates and vowed not to testify before a grand jury until the officers they accused of beating them were brought to justice.
Two defense lawyers said Wednesday they believe the new charges are retaliation for the former Panthers' torture allegations.
Regulators ban toxic dry cleaning solvent
enacted the nation's first statewide ban on the most common chemical used by dry cleaners, pleasing environmentalists but worrying some small businesses.
BY SAMANTHA YOUNG ASSOCIATED PRES $ ^{c} $
carcinogen, will be permitted in the state.
The regulation by the California Air Resources Board will phase out the fluid next year, banning
NATION
SACRAMENTO, Calif. California regulators on Thursday
By 2023, no more dry-clean-
dry cleaners from buying machines that rely on the solvent. The state's 3,400 dry cleaners who now use it must get rid of machines that are 15 years or older by July 2010.
"There is a cost to society, and believe me, taxpayers are paying for it."
DORENE D'ADAMO Board Member
ing machines that use the toxic solvent perchloroethylene, a potential
The rule was embraced by environmental and health advocates, who urged the board to accelerate the ban because of the chemical's health effects. The solvent has contaminated one in 10 wells in California.
Dorene D'ADamo said, "There is a cost to society, and believe me, taxpayers are paying for it."
have known this is a problem for quite some time," board member
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"It it could shut down some mom-and-pop operations — the little guys that can't afford it," said Bob Blackburn, president of the California Cleaners Association.
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