Wednesday, September 08, 1999
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Ex-golf supervisor gets early prison release
The former supervisor of Cincinnati's golf division was freed from prison Tuesday after serving six months for theft in office.
Thomas Creasman, 52, was granted early release on condition he remain on probation for two years and perform 1,000 hours of community service work for the Red Cross.
Mr. Creasman was convicted in 1997 of theft in office, having an unlawful interest in a public contract and three counts of tampering with records.
Although he did not profit personally, prosecutors said Mr. Creasman caused the city to misspend money by forging payment vouchers and illegally paying his wife's company to buy equipment for one of Cincinnati's seven municipal golf courses.
He was sent to prison in March after losing his appeal. At a brief hearing in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Judge Steven Martin told Mr. Creasman he had served enough time.
“I have no regrets about incarcerating you,” the judge said. “But you are a nonviolent offender, and it's time you start giving back to the community.”
Mr. Creasman did not address the judge and left the courtroom without comment.
Landfill opponents taking case to planners
MORROW — Opponents of a proposed landfill in Morrow will present their case to the village's planning commission during a public meeting Thursday at the Morrow City Building.
The 6 p.m. meeting, at 150 E. Pike St., will include presentations by members of the Morrow Environmental Preservation Association (MEPA), which opposes a proposed landfill at the site of the former Alpine Ski resort.
Browning-Ferris Industries of Ohio Inc. (BFI) leases the land and is trying to win zoning approval to build a waste site on it.
The planning commission is expected to vote on whether to approve BFI's rezoning proposal before the end of the year. A final, deciding vote by the village's council would be required should the planning commission approve rezoning for a waste site.
UC, Health Alliance select new liaison
A new administrator has been hired to help coordinate medical research and education programs between the University of Cincinnati and the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati.
Dr. John Griffith, formerly a professor of pediatrics and neurology at Georgetown University and director of its medical center, started his new job Sept. 1.
He is an associate dean of the UC College of Medicine and vice president of education and research for the Health Alliance, which includes Christ, University, Jewish, St. Luke and Fort Hamilton hospitals.
University Hospital, a city-built hospital that had been run by UC, joined the Health Alliance in 1994, then went private in 1997. The UC medical school has maintained a contractual relationship with the hospital since.
Victim of trading fraud wins $13M judgment
A Tristate woman who lost her Procter & Gamble Co. stock in a commodities trading fraud won a $13 million judgment Tuesday against the man who cheated her.
Whether she collects is another question because defendant William L. Embry is thought to be in Cabo Verde in West Africa and some of the money is thought to be in Cyprus and/or Turkey.
Details of the scam were laid out in the default order signed by U.S. District Judge Sandra S. Beckwith in Cincinnati.
She ordered Mr. Embry to repay $8 million plus 10 percent interest from March 30, 1999, and $5 million punitive damages to Elizabeth G. Reagan.
Judge Beckwith said Mr. Embry stole the money in a multifaceted fraudulent scheme that covered nine years and involved theft and mail and wire fraud.
Two lawyers charged with bilking clients
Two Cincinnati-area attorneys were indicted Tuesday on charges they stole money from their respective clients.
Ronald Bradley, with a business office at 7881 Cooper Road, Montgomery, was indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury on charges of theft and forgery. Kenneth Schachleiter, with a business office at 7 W. Seventh St., downtown, was indicted on six counts of forgery, two counts of tampering with records, and one count of theft.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen said the charges against the two attorneys “amount to blatant theft, and a wholesale breach of trust that the defendants' clients had place in them.”
Mr. Bradley is accused of keeping more than $25,000 of a client's money after handling the sale of her house.
Mr. Schachleiter is accused of forging a client's signature on a number of checks and papers filed in Probate Court and taking various amounts of money by way of wire transfers. He took a total of $91,000 from his client, officials say.
Fort Washington Way stars in 6-minute video
New on a video store shelf near you: a six-minute video that takes viewers on a computer-generated tour of what Fort Washington Way will look like when it's completed in August 2000.
“Connection to the Future” also offers a virtual tour of the new Third Street and the new, two-tiered Second Street Transit Center that will serve buses and cars.
The video can be borrowed or rented free from Greater Cincinnati Hollywood Video stores, the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Boone County Library (including Newport and Carrico branches), Kenton County Public Library, Lane Public Library, Mary L. Cook Public Library and Northern Kentucky Regional Library.
Roselawn man, 67, dies after car hits him
A Roselawn man died Tuesday, hours after being hit by a car in Roselawn.
Jacob Raubvogel, 67, was walking across a crosswalk in the 7600 block of Reading Road at about 10 a.m. when he was hit. The driver, Matthew White, 21, of Roselawn, was turning left onto Reading Road from Northwood Avenue.
Mr. Raubvogel was taken to University Hospital, where he died about 5 p.m.
No charges have been filed. The Cincinnati Police Division's traffic unit is investigating.
Sheppard lawsuit won't be tried until January
CLEVELAND — A judge Tuesday delayed until next year a trial to determine whether Dr. Sam Sheppard killed his wife 45 years ago or was wrongfully imprisoned.
The Cuyahoga County prosecutor, who is defending the state against a lawsuit filed by the Sheppards' son, Sam Reese Sheppard, sought additional time to gather and analyze DNA samples from Marilyn Sheppard.
Prosecutor William Mason said he expects to exhume Mrs. Sheppard from Knollwood Cemetery in suburban Mayfield Heights during the second half of September. He plans to have an anthropologist, forensic dentist and DNA expert examine the remains.
The trial had been expected to start Oct. 18, but Judge Ronald Suster of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court granted a delay until Jan. 31. The trial will be the third in the 1954 slaying.
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Discipline cases down, city schools say
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Former UC star a no-show in court
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Police check report of man with knife
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