Liquor License Appeal Languishing
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rosse Pointe ews VOL. 47-No. 30 Grosse POinte, MIchigan, Thursday, July 24, 1986 35 Cents 40 Pages for your information Crane convicted fyi r of tax evasion By Nancy Parmenter The jury found him guIlty of the Grosse POInter Stuart R. Crane three tax evasion charges and not Scary Jerry was found guilty of tax evaSIOn guilty of the two charges of ob- July 17.He had been conVIcted on structIOn to JustIce (the same purloined Similar charges in 1984and served. charges on which Crane's previous Missing: One large scare- 10 months 10 a federal prlson in jury had deadlocked} The max- crow. Last seen wearmg a Duluth before bemg released on a Imum sentence ISfive years each straw hat, blue sweater, con- technicality on the two prevIOUs evasion struction worker's gloves, Jor- HISsecond trial ran two weeks counts, two years on the new tax dache jeans and a Jerry Ford m federal dIStrict court before evaSIOncount and three years lor mask. Approximately six foot- Judge Avern Cohn,the same judge committing a Crime while on pro- six inches tall weighing 50 who heard the fIrst trial The jury bation deliberated for nearly a week be- pounds. Distinguishing The amount of money evaded characteristics? The Jerry fore fInd10g him guilty on three charges and not guilty on two. was not in questIon durin, the Ford mask has a sinister smile. trial. "We stIpulated that; It s not Seems Vincent Buscemi, of Sentencing is expected to take place in a month. Crane's at- an Issue," Carlisle said three Oxford Road in the Woods, had weeks ago "Our defense ISintent. his scarecrow stolen recently. torney, John C. Carhs]e, has al- ready planned an appeal and said We contend that he became con- He said people were constantly fused because the goverrunent was doing double-takes when they he expects Crane to remain free on badgering him. The government's passed the crow-ehaser, but bond pendmg the appeal. conduct confused him to the point alas, it was purloined. Crane was convicted in 1984on two charges of evading $109,000in that he thought the government Vince saId he'd hke the old was Satan It's an original guy back, and would apprecIate federal mcome tax. The jury was defense" any help he could get. deadlocked on two counts of ob- With that Ford mask on, it struction of justice and found him At that time, Carlisle was pre- will likely be found in a sand not gUiltyon two other charges of dicting "the upset of the decade " trap at Lochmoor Country Club tax evasion. The convlCtion was Now he IS planning an appeal or falling off airplane steps at overturned in November when a based on the contention that the Metro. U S Court of Appeals panel found judge erred in allowmg the case to that the district court had not com- be retired after be10g dismissed. plied with the Speedy Trial act, He said he will also appeal several missing the deadline by two days. points of the trial A home store This time Assistant U.S. At- finds a home torney Richard L Delonis brOUght "A lot of 1977and 1978stuff was the same two tax evasion charges Employees coming to work brought mto evidence," he said. on which Crane had already been "ff the jury hears the bad stuff, two weeks ago at Jacobson's found gUIlty.He also charged him Store for the Home found a kit- they should hear the good stuff too, PMto by Bert Emanuele agam Withthe same two counts of instead of having to guess," ten on their doorstep. It was in obstruction of justice and perjury a box lined with children's Ahhh, relief and added a new charge of tax Crane is a former professor of clothes, some cat food and a evasIOnfor flling a false return for economICSat Bob Jones Univer- new food and water dish. Mark- Laying sod during a heat wave is hard work and Chuck Zemens, 25, gets coolad off by an obliging sity and the owner of three inner- DPW worker for Grosse Pointe Shores, Simon Barry. Zemens, who works for Ron-Kare Land- 1980.Crane filed the tax return in ed on the carton was the mes- 1984,while he was on probation. city motels CarlIsle said he had sage: Please find this kitten a scape, was placing new sod along the Lakeshore median near Vernier last week. The temperature played down the Bob Jones con- was 93 degrees, but wilted residents swore it felt much hotter. He claimed $3,000m taxable in- good home. come, the government contended nection during this trial because William Lafer, store he had earned $173,000. "the government was trying to manager, said the first portray hIm as an arch-conserva- customer who came in took it tive Il's my positIOn that they home. He said it was a cute all- were trying his political and white kitten, but he added that Liquor license appeal languishing religious beliefs." he hopes the incident doesn't in- spire others to deposit unwant- Delonis, the prosecutor, said the By Nancy Parmenter most well-developed one IS the ap- ed pets at th&ir door. untIl a hearmg, accord1Og to In the same letter, Marco told trial had been fair "Basically An aQ.lmmstratlve memoran- peal to the commIssion." Rickel. __ _ the LCCthat the War Memorial, if we're bar.k to where we were two dum between offices of the I:ltquor - The- War MemOrIal has asked Grosse Pomte Memorial Church It had a license, would L'attempt to years ago," he saId. Control Commission stating that the LCC to grant a waIver of its gave a letter to the War Memorial operate the public license as a Have you wondered ..• there is no good cause for granting rules on resort licenses According more than a year ago stating that restricted or club license for the a resort license waiver to the to LCCregulatIOns,a resort license its board hus no objectIOnto a liq- benefIt of special groups ... and ... what ever happened with Grosse Pomte War Memorial has shall not be transferred if there are the chemical treatment of the uor license at the center, accord- not for the benefit of the public raised hopes 10 the opponents' other quota licenses available, un- 109 to War MemorIal Director Now that's Farms harbor at Pier Park? camp. generally," a use he called "dis- less the local government favors Mark Weber criminatory." War Memorial of- Twostate agencies had failed to "I hope this WIllput the Issue to the transfer The CIty of Grosse swap critical information on "They haven't objected to the fiCIalshave repeatedly stated that seniority! bed," said Paul Marco, the spokes- Po1OteFarms turned down the re- temporary licenses that we've had their operation wouldnot change If swimming and drinking safety man for the opposition quest for transfer and said nothmg WIthin the past three months, during the first two years of the for the last 20years," Weber saId. they had a liquor license. five offIcers WIth Grosse The memorandum carries no of- to the commiSSIOnabout a waiver Exactly who the objecting neigh- Weber said the War MemOrIal application of chemicals to kill fICIal weIght War MemOrIal at- Although the memorandum POInte's pubhc safety depart- weeds. bors are IS not clear Individual board has not had an opportunity ment have retired The five torney John Rickel saId that until orders that the request for waiver members of the church could be At the 11thhour, the DNR and to review the memorandum. "My represent 174years of service, the commiSSIOn Itself actually be denied because the Farms faIl- among those who have protested in understandmg is that (the memo) the state health department denies the appeal, the War ed to make a favorable recommen- and according to City Manager writmg In a June 26letter to the ISsaying that because the Farms Thomas Kressbach, it's the took a look at each other's maps Memorial WIllcontlOue to pursue dation, local reSIdents have pro- LCC, Marco saId that 525 "neigh- and charts and decided that it. ~ hasn't approved it, an appeal may largest turnover of personnel in tested, and the War Memonalls lo- bors and concerned resIdents" had be futile," he said. "We won't know there "probably" was no cause "We are proceeding," he saId cated too close to a church, the the hIstory of the department SIgned petItIOns against the what we'll do until the board dIS- They are Robert Marshall, for concern, since the current "There are various avenues The issue Willnot actually be decided lIcense hugs the shore and the drinking cusses it." fire ChIefand deputy dIrector, water intake is at least a 30years, Duncan MacEachern, quarter-mile off the harbor lieutenant, 37 years; George point. Volunteers keep cities blooming Brackx, sergeant, 34years, Ed- As to swimming in the area ward Behrend, sergeant, 40 "It ISJust part of me," Wicker years; and Virgil Beaupre, pub- where the current hugs the By Peter A. Salinas man. said he has been on the com- said. "I like to see the city look in- shore, nobody ever checked in- said. "Mr Dlckmson helped me lic safety officer, 33 years. There IS a movement blossom get Involved Withthe commIttee ' mittee for fIve years now vitlOg. It's satisfying. Far more to that. The county health "I think It'S the appearance that Public Safety DIrector Bruce ing In the Grosse Pomtes - one Dlckmson. a former Woods people get to enjoy this than would Kennedy saId that OffIcer Al- department monitors the that has passersby sml1mg a bit IS Important to me," Dlckmson enjoy my backyard Farms beach for fecal coliform, Beautification Committee chaIr- fred F10cham has been pro- more and perhaps feelmg good "Sometimes I do this over the moted to lieutenant effective but has no mandate to take about their surroundmgs neglect of my own yard.