European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse News he told the Houston Post. In retrospect in is apparent i stumbled upon a Wasp s Neil of Selt inhere is and self dealing thai continues to be covered Caddy accused Robert Moody of conspiring with older brother Shearn or. To use foundation Grants o finance steam s Legal Bailie in whal amounts no 1o a $12 million bankruptcy affair. I was not pad of an conspiracy and whoever said it is a Damn said Robert in fact investigators said the worst that could be said of Robert Moody is thai he permitted his brother Greal Tali Lude in choosing Grant recipients. Meanwhile the foundation officials hired private investigator Clyde Wilson to look into the charges. Wilson in 1985 had exposed High level chicanery at Houston s Hermann estate one of the biggest scandals in that City s history. Before accepting the Job Wesson returned a $10.000 Check he received from Moody to look into the deals last August of the matriarch. Mary Moody Northen. Shortly after Wilson agreed to conduct lha foundation inquiry he said steam ohs red him Grants totalling As much As $500,000 Tor a vague investigative acting in Parl on the results of Clyde Wilson s inquiry a Federal grand jury dropped its Long awaited bomb Doc. 2 on Shearn Moody and his adm Stative aide Norman Revie 48. The panel named the longtime associates As co schemers in a 14 count indictment accusing them of misuse of foundation funds and hiding More than �200,000 from creditors in the bankruptcy Case. The indictment alleged mail wire and bankruptcy fraud and focused on $500,000 in Granis awarded two Washington based organizations headed by former Maryland congressman Robert e. Bauman who had just published a Book about his Lite As a conservative homosexual. Bauman was named As an officer and director of the two organizations the foundation for education on Freo Enterprise and the Texas civil liberties foundation not to be confused with the Texas civil liberties Union tha indictment accused Bauman of no wrongdoing but claimed Moody and Revie received kickbacks irom the two groups. Just a smear Job Moody said. The affair took a new twist in mid december when Douglas Caddy submitted affidavits to Steve Shaw the assistant . Attorney claiming he had received bomb threats on his life and that his office Telephone had been illegally lapped. He declined to identify the source of the wiretaps for reasons of libel and slander but told Shaw that he and an associate had seen fugitive con Man Erma Bombeck before people buy a Home they should read carefully the buyer beware clause. Somewhere in the print so Small you have to we in through the Telescope at Kitt Peak Observatory must be a warning that reads be advised your property is located in the area of a popular tourist Altra Clion and will seduce untold hordes of uninvited guests to your Home these visitors will expect to be housed Ted. Transported amused entertained and guided through said this is no Small problem there Are scores of these tourist hostels dotted throughout the United sales they Are somewhere in the neighbourhood of Universal City it. Rushmore. Elvis Presley s Home. My. Vernon Betsy Ross House. Mon Celto. Disney s land and world the indy 500 Racetrack. Radio City music Hall grand die opry. The St Louis Arch and the nver winding through downtown san Antonio. Did i say in the neighbourhood some of these William r Pabst running out of 1hc4f office building during the period of the purported bugging Caddy s claims came on the heels of disclosures by Wilson the private detective that he had affidavits alleging that Pabst and Shearn Moody once Alle pled to Bug the us supreme court building in Washington lawsuits involving Moody s bankrupt insurance firm. Empire Lite insurance co of Alabama were before the court numerous times. Pastl meanwhile emerged As a major but missing player in the Woody Saga when on dec. 29 grand jurors in Houston indicted Moody and Revie a second time. In a 30-Counl indictment jurors accused Moody Revie Pabst and iwo others of fraud through the misappropriation of $1.5 million in Moody Grants to other foundations All were set up at least in part by Pabst 44, who was convicted in 1985 of stealing $38,600 from Al Antic Richfield corp. In a Chanty scam authorities believe Pabst fled to Mexico. Houston residents remember Pabst As a 1976 american party candidate Tor slate representative and the plaintiff in a Federal lawsuit to halt the 1980 super bowl because of a disputed Call in a Houston oilers Pittsburgh teeters Tuot bail game. The dec. 29 indictment accused Moody of abusing his Power As a foundation trustee in awarding the three Grants and alleged further that the Grant Money was kicked Back to Moody and others to pay personal and Legal expenses. So ended 1986. Mean Lima a woman named Diane Simons and a lawyer named Leonard Bradt among others. Had provided investigators detailed accounts of the alleged juggling of Grant Money by Pabst Moody Revie and recipients of the Moody largess. In e bizarre sidelight both Bradt and Simons told of a plan to use Grant Money to fund an attempt by an Illinois psychologist to disrupt Norman Revie s obvious control of Shearn both said in their sworn statements that Moody agreed to such a project but would not give f
