European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. August 31, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bakker coveted Rich life aide says private jets heated Pool among cravings Charlotte. . A Jim Bak Ker s former personal aide testified tues Day the pal founder Felt he lived Shab Bily yet moved his belongings by private Jet and kept his swimming Pool heated to 90 degrees. David Taggart. The first witness called when Bakker s trial opened monday also said the Board of the evangelical Empire in 1985 approved borrowing $800.000 for operating expenses while voting Bakker a $200.000 Bonus. On Cross examination by the defense Taggart testified Bakker repeatedly objected to bonuses and raises approved by the Board but always took the Money. If convicted of All 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy Bakker could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined $5 million. Bakker quit pal in 1987 amid reve lations about his 1980 sexual encounter with Church Secretary Jessica Hahn and a $265,000 payoff for her silence. Defense attorney George t. Davis said the Hahn payment was made with out Bakker s knowledge but Aggari said Bakker personally approved it. Hahn is not on the list of witnesses scheduled to testify. Taggart and his brother James were convicted last month of tax evasion. Each faces 25 ears in prison and $1 Mil lion in fines at sentencing sept. 8. James Taggart. Who was pal s Interior Decora Tor also is expected to testify. Prosecutors Sas Bakker and other executives at pal diverted for their own Benefit at least $4 million of the $158 million they raised by Selling $1,000 lifetime partnerships at the ministry s resort hotels in fort Mill . David Aggari Testi fed Bakker complained during a visit to Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. Okla., just weeks before he resigned that he did t live As Well As other evangelists. They were showing us around tag Gart said. Or. Bakker said that he lived shabbily compared to Oral Roberts the Rex Hubbards and other Taggart said electric Bills at Bakker s lakefront parsonage in Tega Cay ., usually ran about $1.800 to $2,000 a month because the Pool was kept at a very High temperature. In the 90s." the witness also recounted moving pal founder Jim Bakker left arrives ill the Federal courthouse in Charlotte Hilli his Smyer George Datis. The bakkers clothing and other belong Ings from Toga Cay to a House they owned in Palm Springs calif., in 1984. He said the move was made on a Pri vate Jet at a Cost to pal of $105.000. Taggart also testified Bakker had be come fascinated with real estate invest ments and wanted to invest his Bonus payments in land. He told me he wanted to have 10 Homes Aggari said. Defense lawyer Harold Bender had Aggari read from Check lists made each Day at pal dealing with subjects ranging from the telephones to getting gifts for to audience members and providing ministers to counsel or. Bakker was not Only taking care of the Day to Day things at pal the lights the cleanliness he was also looking out for the spiritual welfare of his congregation was t he Bender , salvation was tag Gart said. Police shooting of Black sets off rioting in no. City Vineland . A four people were arrested wednesday morning after another night of racial tension and vandalism on the streets where a Black Man was shot and killed by police. Officers in riot gear doubled their patrols and Dis banded Small groups of youths to try to prevent a recurrence of the violence and looting that broke out late monday and Early tuesday. The Mother of Samuel Williams 26, who was shot sunday called for Calm As Community leaders Dis cussed longer term solutions to defuse the tension in this City of about 54,000. After reports of the shooting nearly 200 people Gath ered on the City s main Street late monday night and threw rocks and bottles through store windows. There was looting and about 20 cars were damaged including police cars that had windshields smashed. Four people were reported injured and 26 people were arrested. On tuesday night about 200 people met at a Church with religious and Community leaders and heard the victim s Mother plead for an end to the violence. That s not going to bring my son Back said Lucille Williams sobbing As other family members cried by her Side. I Don t want nobody else killed. One i enough. Let s pull together and love each other she said. Police chief Joseph Cassisi contends that Williams was shot sunday after he apparently threatened officer Paul Lucli a with a steel Rod. Williams who was wanted on drug and weapons charges was spotted by officers after police receive Dan Anonymous Call about a Man on a bicycle carrying drugs. Cassis said. After being told he was under arrest. Williams picked up the Rod and approached Clizia. Swinging Cassisi said. Clizia who is White fired two shots Hilling Williams both times. The state attorney general s office has taken Over the investigation of the shooting. Telizia has been taken off Street duty and placed on special assignment City officials said. Samuel Clark president of the local chapter of the National association for the advancement of coloured people met with mayor Harry Curley on tuesday. Earlier Clark called for Cassisi s resignation saying the police chief mishandled the matter by calling the shooting a justifiable homicide before the investigation had been was the catalyst Clark said. That sparked the Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago . 31. 1949 . Government officials disclosed the yugoslavian government had applied for a $25-million loan to buy . Mining equipment for its Lead Copper and mines. 30 years ago today. Aug. 31. 1959 in a personal letter to soviet Premier Nikitas. Khrushchev. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer appealed to the soviet Union to resume negotiations with the West on nuclear and conventional disarmament. 20 years ago today. Aug. 31. 1969 . Officials announced the first withdrawals of . Troops from thai land would probably be limited to support troops rather than air combat forces. ? 0 years ago today. Aug. 31, 1979 two irishmen allegedly members of the Irish Republican army appeared in a Dublin court charged with the Mur Der of Earl Mountbatten of Burma whose fish ing boat was blown up on Donegal Bay a few Days earlier
