European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 26, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7ex-senator told to use pension to pay Fine Washington api a former sen. Harrison a. Williams or. . Still owes the Federal government much of his 1981 Fine for bribery and conspiracy and a Tennessee congressman says Williams should use his Federal pension to pay off the debt. Current Law allows the . Government to recover debts from Federal employees by making deductions from their salaries and retirement pay. The Justice department says. However it has never been tried with a member of Congress according to assistant attorney general Carol t. Crawford. Quot the Law is there apparently but they be just never applied  said Jim Edwards a spokesman for freshman rep. John j. Duncan. A Tenn. Quot i Don t believe in kicking a Man when he is Down a Duncan said of Williams. Quot however the fact is that senator Williams owes the government Money while he is being paid a government retirement Check. This situation should be  Duncan said Only $2,324.23 of Williams $50,000 Fine has Heen collected so far. Williams reached earlier this month in new Jersey where he has been helping at a drug to Catmint program. Said attorney John d. Arsenault was handling payment of the Fine. Quot it s worked out through my lawyer Quot Williams said. A i know Jack has worked out a program. And i m going to be abiding with it. It s All taken care  phone Calls to Arsenault a office in new Jersey were not returned. Williams was released from prison in january 1986 after serving two years of concurrent two year and three year sentences for bribery conflict of interest and conspiracy in the a scam sting. In that Fri operation undercover agents posing As middlemen for Arab sheiks met with Williams. He agreed to accept a hidden interest in a Virginia titanium mine in return for helping to find military contracts for the venture according to evidence at trial. Williams said in the Telephone interview that the a scam matter was not yet behind him and he had filed Freedom of information requests to obtain material that could Clear his name. Duncan began pursuing the matter of unpaid Federal debts at the request of Knoxville tcnn., mayor Victor Salt a who had seen published reports last september that Williams had drawn More than $320,000 from a Federal pension while owing most of his $50,000 a scam Fine Edwards said. After a series of letters. Crawford wrote Duncan on Jan. 25. 1990, that the . Attorney s office in new Jersey was exploring the possibility of pension deductions. Quot based on your and mayor ashes inquiry the . Attorney s office is now investigating the applicability of these provisions to senator Williams Case and will utilize them to the extent possible to recover his Federal Fine Quot she said. Spokesmen for the Justice department in Washington and the . Attorney s office in Newark declined to say whether they had proceeded with deductions. Quot we arc actively pursuing the funds that we feel the department is entitled  said Doug Tillott of the Justice department s criminal division. A the matter is in litigation Quot said Dick Lavin Thal a spokesman for the . Attorney in new Jersey. A when there is an outstanding debt to the government we pursue  Crawford informed Duncan that other routes had been pursued in collecting Williams debt such As seizing his Federal income tax refunds. However she said Williams owns no real property and his cd Minster . Home was purchased in his wife s name preventing the government from using it to satisfy the debt. Hilary a grandparents Call her father Pervert Christchurch. New zealand Iuit la a the grandparents of a 7-Ycar-old girl caught in an International custody dispute called the child s father a Quot paedophile Pervert Quot and said they would prevent him from seeing the girl. Meanwhile Oral surgeon Eric fore Nch. 47. On his Way to new zealand from his Virginia Home was expected to arrive in Christchurch monday morning even though a Christchurch court has issued a temporary order granting custody of his daughter. Hilary to her grandparents and preventing him from seeing her Hilary was recently discovered living in Christchurch with her maternal grandparents. William ind Antonia Morgan More than two years after her Mother sent her into hiding rather than allow her to be sent on unsupervised visas with her father whom she accuses of sexually abusing the girl. The Mother plastic surgeon Elizabeth Morgan spent 25 months in a Washington. . Jail on contempt charges for refusing to divulge her daughters whereabouts. Foretich has repeatedly denied he abused his daughter. The discovery of Hilary has set off another round of Legal disputes in the 4-year-old custody fight. Foretich has filed for interim custody of Hilary through the new zealand courts. Quot get these words. He is a psychopathic paedophile Pervert Quot William mor Tan. Hilary s maternal Grandfather said unday on National television. Hilary a maternal grandmother. Antonia Morgan said on radio new zealand that she and her husband hoped the courts would protect the girl. Quot All we want. All we arc asking. Is that they consider her welfare Quot she said. The morgans were Given temporary custody of Hilary at a Brief hearing in the new zealand family court in Christchurch last Friday authorities said. The interim custody order is scheduled for review this week. Foretich. In an interview published in the Dominion sunday times in Christchurch said a i just want to see my daughter. I just want to Sec what can be done to get her  Elizabeth Morgan is unlikely to attend the new zealand court hearing because her passport was suspended during the custody Battle. The couple separated shortly before Hilary a birth and later divorced. Neither Parent apparently has seen the girl since she arrived in new zealand. New . Citizen tenure Vladimir Popov a defector from the soviet Union shakes hands with supreme court Justice Antonin Scalla after Scalla presented him with the official documents of Popov s citizenship. The papers were presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington where Popov has been performing As radames in  Popovs wife Ludmilla looks  Escapee turns himself in Toulon. Iii. Apr the fifth of six prisoners who escaped from the Illinois state prison at Joliet turned himself in saturday at his parents urging a prison system spokesman said. Ronald Roach. 20. Surrendered at the Stark county sheriffs department in Toulon after making his Way Home to Wyoming iii., said a spokesman for the Illinois department of corrections Roach was to be returned to Joliet to face arraignment on escape charges. Howell said. Roach was serving a four year sentence for burglary when he and five other prisoners escaped before Dawn feb. 11 from the maximum Security Joliet correctional Center the state s oldest prison. All the other escapees have been captured except David Rodriguez. 21, of Chicago who was serving a 25-Ycar term for murder. Fire results in Power outage for downtown Seattle area Seattle apr about 70 blocks of downtown Seattle lost electrical Power for several hours saturday after a fire in a transformer vault. No injuries were reported but the outage darkened hotel lobbies and shut Down switching equipment for the Washington state lottery leaving some people unable to buy tickets on the night of a $6 million draw ing a one of the state s largest in months. The fire department responded about 11 30 . And doused it by 1 50 ., a fire dispatcher said. City Light spokesman Hugh Mcintosh said Power was restored at 3 35  To the entire area. Quot there was less damage than we had feared Quot Mcintosh said after initially indicating Power restoration could take Days. The area affected included the Section that was without Power during a similar transformer vault fire in August 1988. In that incident Power was out for three Days Mcintosh said. The fire apparently started in a device that works like a circuit breaker in the olympic building lie said. The vault is in the building s basement. The primary electrical cables were across the room and were undamaged he said. The vault contains three transformers and three cables. The protector device was replaced allowing the Power to return he said. City Light had closed those cables and three others at a nearby substation when news of the fire was received he said. Those six cables or circuits constitute most of the Aow Ntow n network he said. The area of the Power outage encompassed Pike place Market several major department stores the Seattle aquarium and the port of Seattle. Lottery spokesman Dick Paulson said 417 of the lottery systems 980 terminals in the state a from South Seattle to the Canadian Border a were without Power because of the fire. The terminals Are connected to a switching Center located in the Wustin building. People in Lour counties were unable to buy tickets but the drawing would take place As usual Paulson said