European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes irs probes destruction of documents Texas a the irs is investigating the deliberate destruction of tax documents at the internal Revenue service regional Center documents from As Many As Busi Nesses in six states were shredded because of an obscene emphasis on Quantity and a Union lawyer Bob Public affairs officer for the said an investigation of the Inci Dent late last year has been a firs line supervisory employee instructed another employee to destroy cer Tain taxpayer related an irs statement management con fronted the supervisory employee with the and the employee Branson said he didst know How Many documents were employee Union officials put the number Between and separate Case files with As Many As 20 pages of tac ments such As its this obscene emphasis on Quantity and said Union lawyer Ann there actually generating extra work to get errors the supervisor had too much to process so she threw the excess it May be she did it without author but we wonder about the incident came to Light in the Wake of reports earlier this month of the shredding of As Many As income tax returns and checks by overworked irs employees in Roscoe commissioner of the irs in angrily denounced the re ports of the Philadelphia shredding As utter thursdays statement identified neither of the irs employees Branson said he would have no further comment until an investigation is the Austin Center is one of 10 regional irs centers in the United it serves new Louisiana and there is no Way to find out to whom the destroyed documents Union officials were according to Darla presi Dent of local 72 of the National Treasury employees the Union represents a third of the centers she said the supervisor had ordered the destruction during a late1984 shift in com Puter and that a computer track ing system was shut we think that probably How she thought she could get away with Ellzey said of the supervisory employee who or dered the Pittman said the supervisor apparently was trying to keep her unit of the centers business master file Section first in efficiency by reducing an overwhelming asked Why the employee might have or dered the Pittman to get her volume to look we work under constant pressure out its a Terri ble thing that she Felt she had so much pres sure on her to do something like Pittman said management discovered the destruction Only after a Young woman employee charged with destroying the documents became worried about it and reported what she had Branson said he did not know if a crime had been since details of the documents destroyed were not if tax returns had been destroyed this would have been a we dont know that it was a Branson the service Center processes 20 million tax returns a new Yorks Fop cop shamed7 by torture reports new York a police commissioner Benjamin Ward said Friday he was ashamed by allegations that three suspects were tortured at a station House and told his ranking officers to accept their responsibility or get hours a fourth Man came Forward to claim he had been abused by two officers already charged in the and a Legal Aid society attorney said he was checking three new complaints of torture at the Queens who ordered More than 300 commanding officers to a meeting at police said he would try to make a criminal Case against a Captain and lieutenant who were removed from the 106th precinct last Ward said he told the officers All holding the rank of Captain or higher that command carries with it account and its hot in the you take it or you get eighteen officers have been transferred from the pre four officers have been arrested and another sus Pended in connection with the torture the attacks allegedly were made in an attempt to Force three men to admit to drug the beatings had racial according to about two hours after wards a Man charged that he was beaten and shocked with an electric stun gun at the 106th Robert says he was attacked by two of the officers already Richard Pike and offi cer Jeffrey according to Caesar chief of the Legal Aid society criminal who told reporters he would present Davis complaint to Queens District attorney John said he also was checking three More new complaints of police brutality at the Davis did not but showed reporters three sets of prong Marks on his stomach and one set on his Cirigliano said they were the result of a stun Gilbert and Pike stopped Davis on the 28 and accused him of Selling he was taken to the precinct House and told to remove his Cirigliano the officers verbally abused making comments referring to his sex organs and whether he used them or Cirigliano two other officers were present and they sent out for Beer and the lawyer said that using a racial a photo Raymond new 106th precinct commander replacing accused officer warned Davis to stay out of the and threat ened to arrest him if he showed on March Pike and Gilbert stopped Davis on the Street and Gilbert punched Davis in the hand cuffed him and forced him to lie face Down on the where they applied the stun Cirigliano he was taken to the where Pike stuck that Zapper in his stomach and kept it there for 2 to 21a in was crying for help As loud As he no one came to his Cirigliano the officers searched Davis and said they found several bags of gave him a desk appearance ticket and released but Cirigliano said the ticket was dated Only for with no Day so Davis could not possibly have gone to court Cirigliano said there was no probable cause for an arrest in either police spokesmen referred an inquiry for comment on Davis allegations to top department who did not immediately return reporters after speaking to his Ward told reporters he was freezing All promotions above Captain until he and his staff could review the records of those up for i feel shame and disgrace Over the series of incidents that have occurred in this Ward asked about morale on the Ward its not Well today be cause of the disgrace and shame Over what a few officers have Ward said he also would seek a reduction in civil service control Over police personnel Philip head of the patrolmen benevolent As criticized the commissioners especially regarding civil service the police department has ample avenues open to them in terms of disciplinary including suspension and and they have exercised those Powers in the Caruso who talked about the closed meeting after it said he complained about a series of cases they had done nothing including those involving illegal Slot police corruption and unprofessional police Why you be she cries Fri agent says soviet woman tried to seduce him los Angeles a a soviet woman on trial on espionage charges threatened to Tell everybody and make an Fri agent pay for testifying about her unrequited love for Why you lie Svetlana Ogorodnikova burst out As agent John Hunt was telling jurors Friday that she had propositioned him when he was attempting to recruit her As an Fri liar Ogorodnikova wiping her District judge David Kenyon declared a recess and had jurors escorted from the after they Ogorodnikova sobbed to still seated on the witness she i will Tell eve Rybo you will pay for resumed his testimony after Ogo Rodnikova had composed he said he spent months trying to establish an informant relationship with the russian woman while she wanted a romantic he said she once asked him to go to a Motel with told him repeatedly she was in love with him and showered him with including a Jar of caviar and toys for his in june when Ogorodnikova geared ready to help the Hunt he took her out to dinner to establish rap port and she then suggested they Stop for a drink at a Sunset Boulevard at the he she opened a briefcase filled with russian dolls and gave him she i want you to have she More or less and i accepted the at the end of the he said she made a sexual we were walking toward my Fri and All of a sudden she abandoned her at tache throwing it on the then she threw her arms around me and i love Why dont we go someplace Hunt said he we cant do Why dont you just go Home at that Point in the trial Ogorodnikova cried you lie you lie with tears rolling Down her Hunt continued his saying that before leaving the parking lot the woman told if you wont take in going to find someone who in pretrial Ogorodnikova attorneys said that she did have a sexual affair with he denied did you Ever at any precipitate Ogorodnikova romantic advances in any Way asked assistant attorney Richard i did the agent did As she had go some place with her to have sexual Intercourse Kendall i did Hunt and her Niko Are charged with conspiring with another Fri Richard who has acknowledged having an affair with the russian the government says they plotted to pass classified documents to the soviet Miller is the first Fri agent Ever charged with espionage and he is to be tried separately after the Ogorodnikova Case is each defendant faces a possible maximum sentence of life in