Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonviolent property crimes live in a halfway house, take jobs and use part of their earnings to repay what they stole. Says Ron Johnson, supervisor of the Minnesota Restitution Center: "It's one thing to break into a garage. It's another to have to look the owner in the eye afterward. We're building a sense of responsibility...
...going back if I screw up. This makes a lot more sense." Speaking for the eleven-member staff, Johnson adds: "When I was a parole agent, I would see my guys maybe once a month. Here we have daily contact." As for the victims, Garage Owner Carl Brown notes, "It's no further risk to me. He's making the payments. Maybe this will straighten...
These are not the only abuses. One owner, without bothering to obtain power of attorney, took over his patients' bank accounts, charged them a high private rate until their resources were exhausted, then kept them on at the lower rates paid by Medicare and Medicaid. Other operators increase their profit margins by tacking extra charges onto already high bills. Mendelson reports that one Virginia nursing home listed charges of $3 per day for care of bedsores, which probably resulted from staff neglect in the first place...
...owner Ray Ciccolo of the Boston Lobsters had wanted the best soldiers to withstand the psychic bloodletting that was scheduled to go on, he made some good picks and some bad ones. The best on paper looked to be Lobster captain and doubles player extraordinary Ian Tiriac. Tiriac was from Rumania, bad boy Ilia Nastase's doubles partner when Nasty was at his most abusive...
...garrulous former Navy fighter pilot, Eisenhauer claims that he is owed $55,000 in back pay, crew salaries and expenses by the plane's owner, Fairfield General Corp., a New Jersey firm that had been part of Vesco's corpo rate empire. Eisenhauer had a bold plan to recover Fairfield General's principal asset-Vesco's 707-and he took it to the company's receivers. They in turn took the idea to New Jersey Superior Court Judge Irwin Kimmelman, who was overseeing efforts to liquidate Fairfield General. After a few discreet phone calls located...