European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 20, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7suicide doctor expects murder charges or. Jack Kevorkian Pontiac Mich. Apr a medical examiner issued homicide rulings wednesday in the deaths of two women who killed themselves with help from suicide machine inventor or. Jack Kevorkian. Oakland county prosecutor Richard Thompson would t say whether he would prosecute. He said his office would Issue a statement thursday regarding charges. Kevorkian and his attorney Geoffrey Finger told Xyz to that they expected murder charges to he filed thursday the 63-year-old retired pathologist gained prominence in june 1990 when he helped alzheimer s patient Janet Adkins of Oregon kill herself. He hooked her to a device he invented and she pushed a Button giving herself a lethal injection. Kevorkian was charged with first degree murder in that Case but a judge dismissed the charge in december 1990, noting that Michigan has no Law barring assisted suicide. The state still has no such Law proposals to create one Are pending in the legislature. But Kevorkian was barred from helping people commit suicides in Oakland county and could face contempt charges if the court rules he violated the order. On oct. 23, Kevorkian used devices he invented to help two More women kill themselves in a state Park in Oakland county North of Detroit. Sherry Miller. 43, had multiple sclerosis and Marjorie Wantz 58, suffered from a painful but not terminal Pelvic disease. Miller inhaled Carbon monoxide through a mask. Wantz received a lethal injection using a device similar to the one Adkins used. Kevorkian called police to report a Quot physician assisted suicide shortly alter the deaths. Both women had asked Kevorkian Tor assistance in ending their lives the doctor has said. The medical examiner s report said the deaths weren t suicide because a suicide is reserved for self inflicted death and in this situation All the evidence indicates these deaths were brought about by another person a the Detroit free press reported thursday. Fieger said the med cat examiner s ruling was politically motivated. Quot that s a change from what it has been everybody knows they committed suicide a Fieger said. A i believe it was prompted by political  medical examiner la. Dragovic said from his suburban Detroit Home wednesday night that he would t comment. But referring to Kevorkian and Fieger he said a they re off the  Kevorkian told Xyz he. Was performing his duties As a doctor to ease pain and suffering. A fall that counts to me is the welfare of a patient Quot he said. A that s All that matters. There was no answer at Kevorkian s apartment in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak on wednesday night or at Fiegert a office in nearby Southfield. Fiegert a Home number is not . Seeks stay of repatriation ban Miami up a the government has asked for a stay of a temporary restraining order that prevents the forcible repatriation of some 6,000 haitians who have fled their violence wracked Homeland. The move wednesday was the third in a rapid series of Legal developments in the government s efforts to return the haitians who Are being held at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. A three judge panel tuesday night overturned a decision by . District judge c. Clyde Atkins Banning repatriation. Hours later Atkins issued another restraining order and scheduled a hearing for today. At the hearing attorneys for the haitian refugee Center will argue the Federal government is not following its own guidelines to determine who is a candidate for political Asylum. . Law states potential political refugees should be taken to the United states for hearings on their status and the rest could be returned to Haiti As economic refugees fleeing that country a poverty. The appeals panel ruling covered a slightly different Issue. The court ruled haitians intercepted at sea Are not covered by . And International Laws designed to protect political refugees because they have not reached . Territory. The government contends most of the haitians who have fled Are trying to escape the poverty that has plagued the nation for two centuries. Advocates for the haitians argued the refugees have not been Given a fair Chance to show they Are fleeing the excesses of the haitian government and arc legitimate candidates for political Asylum. The. Coast guard has rescued 7,562 haitians from 112 vessels since the exodus began oct. 29, a month after a bloody coup resulted in the ouster of haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Before the original injunction Banning repatriation was issued 538 haitians were returned to their country. A Snow Man Snow May be scarce in new Mexico but that does t Stop Dan Wasser of Mesilla Park from having some creative Winter tin in the Sun. Wasser constructed a snowman from tumbleweeds and decorated his Home with about 33,000 lights of different sizes and colors. His Holiday project took him nearly 60 hours to  builder Back in business Miami apr a bankruptcy judge agreed wednesday to accept general development  plan to get Back in business in an Anticlimactic end to a 20-month Case triggered by a giant consumer fraud. A nobody comes out nearly whole a said company attorney William Perlstein noting the chapter 11 reorganization plan reduced All creditors claims though most agreed to the Deal. The Miami company that built Homes for 220,000 people filed for bankruptcy Protection in april 1990, just Days after being indicted on charges of Selling More than 10,000 vastly overpriced Homes. The company also sold property to hundreds of . Service members serving in Europe. The company pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy. It later changed its management and agreed to reimburse fleeced Home buyers. Four former executives Are on trial in criminal court. One of the final conditions for confirmation of the plan was met wednesday when creditors announced an impressive list of proposed Board members including former state supreme court chief Justice Raymond Ehrlich. Intent on shedding the company a crooked image of the 1980s, creditors committee attorney Mike Williamson said Board members were selected in the belief they could a competently and ethically run the restructured company. The company has until March 31 to shrink just under $5 billion in debts claimed by creditors to $1.5 billion through the elimination of duplicate and overstated claims. A relieved Perlstein summed up the strides made in the Case. A a you re talking about a Case that started after a criminal indictment in the Middle of a recession a Florida real estate Developer that could easily have ended up in a liquidation that would have Hurt the Consumers the employees and the Florida Economy Quot he said. A there is a Story Here about a chanter 11 that  regular court hearings will continue As general development takes care of Legal issues As it pursues a course toward becoming a publicly traded company again.18 charged in computer data probe Newark . Apr private investigators and social Security administration employees in nine states were among 18 people charged wednesday with buying and Selling confidential data from Federal government computers. The investigators paid for personal information illegally pinched from the social Security administration and the Federal Bureau of investigation. . Attorney Michael chert off said. The data a personal earnings histories and criminal records a weren t taken by outside hackers breaking into the system Chertoff said hut by government employees who were exploiting their Access to the system. The private eyes either bribed or duped government workers to provide the confidential information c her Toff said. A there is Little More chilling than the Prospect of private citizens turning government computer systems into private versions of big brother Quot Chertoff said. The private investigators Many of whom advertise in Legal journals sold inc information to private companies Chertoff said. Companies could use the information to track people Down or make decisions on hiring firing suing or lending. The earnings information was allegedly pinched from the sea computer system which houses earnings and employment information on All people with social Security numbers. The criminal histories were allegedly taken from the of big a National crime information Center which provides criminal information to Federal state and local Law enforcement agencies throughout the country. If convicted on All counts against them the defendants face maximum sentences of 20 to 150 years and multimillion Dollar fines. Named in both the new Jersey and Florida indictments were Linda Stollenwerck who works in the Ssan a office in Melrose Park Iii., and George Theodo reak Opolous who owns tracers worldwide services of Corpus Christi Texas and Elmhurst Iii. Indicted in new Jersey were Allen and Petra Schweitzer a married couple who own the Security group in Sumner Wash. Edward Fleming owner of super Bureau in Monterey calif., and his daughter Susan Fleming Victor fought operator of locate unlimited in Mesa Ariz. Richard Stone owner of interstate information services in port Jefferson . And Michael Hawes former owner of International criminal investigative Agency in port Angeles Wash. Indicted in Florida were Robert Boland an employee of the Fulton county sheriffs office in Fulton a. Gail Mullinax a private investigator in Austell a. William Pedersen a Chicago police officer Jack Hauser an investigator from grand rapids Mich. Ronald Ciancioso an investigator from Coral Springs Fla. John Colesanti an sea employee in new York City Robert Bressette of Phoenix Ariz. Joanna Price a former sea employee in Phoenix Ariz. And Frank Farrington of Seattle Wash