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Show B2 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Saturday, Septemb 9, 1995 CRABBY ROAD For me, corn dogs are @ good source of fiber. 4 get plenty of fiber gnauing the crispres off the sticks. Judge Unseals Corradini s 93 Testimony 400 Pages Reveal No Surprises About Bonneville Pacific By Steven Oberbeck THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE It is no best-selling thriller. US. Bankruptcy Court Judge John H. Allen on Friday unsealed almost 406 pages of Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini’s testimony involving her financial dealings with the scandal plagued Bonneville Pacific Corp. FOR THE RECORD FIRE UPDATE -A fire on FremontIsland in the Great Salt Lake fizzled Friday, while a blaze near EchoReservoir grew from 100acres to 650. Up to 100 firefighters fought the Echo Reservoir blaze and hoped to have it out by Sunday evening: no structures were threatened. The island blaze burned 3,000 acres before crews from Weberand Davis counties dousedit Friday. oa MAN SUES COLLECTORS Willard Jenkins, 82, filed a lawsuit Friday against Allstate Credit & Collections and two attorneys, saying they badgered him while trying te collect a $205bill to University of Utah Hospital for medical care in 1991 for his now deceased wife. Jenkins, represented by Utah Legal Services Inc., said helivesin a small three-room Salt Lake County apartment, does not ojvn a vehicle and could not pay e bill. Jenkins’ attorney, David » Challed, said the defendants uged the judicial process to re¢ his client to appearat severhearings when there was no likelihood Jenkins’ financialsituation had changed. And since the recent death of his wife, the defendants should have known proceedings against Jenkins would result in emotional distress. Jenkins is asking for damages and for 3rd District Judge Michael Murphy to order monitoring of the firm for three years to ensure compliance with the Fair Debt Gpllection Practices Act. a PRISON FOR PEDOPHILE + George B. Bowerbank was senténced Friday to three concurrent 1+to-15-year prison terms for sexually abusing two 9 year-old girls at his Salt Lake County home, 8169 W. Armoridge Lane. Bowerbank, 42, confessed to having intércourse with one of the victims several!times, according to court records. He originally was charged with first-degree-felony Tape and aggravated sexual abuse, but he pleaded guilty to three reduced counts before 3rd District Judge Frank Noel. The testimony Corradini and her husband Yan Ross gave in mid-1993 was releasedafter freelance writer Lynn Packer petitioned the court that it be made public. There were no big surprises, just the fine details of Corradini’:‘ involvement on the periphery of the largest bankruptcy in Utah history. Corradini was a cofounder of Bonneville Pacific, an alternative energy company that filed for bankruptcy in December 1992. The most interesting revelations concerned the second-telling of Corradini and Ross’s threeweek trip to Europe in 1990. They took their four children along and at one point met Salt Lake City Olympic booster Tom Welch in Rome. The family’s trip cost $43,000. Sallah International picked up the tab. The company was an off-shore affiliate of Bonneville Pacific, which was run by Jack Dunlop, a former executive who to date is the only companyinsider to serve jail time. Corradini owned a 642% interest in Sallah. “On any of these trips where you did business, did you allocate anything between business and Pleasure as to meals, lodging, transportation or anything?” asked Leo Beus, the attorney for Bonneville Pacific trustee Koger gal. They didn’t. which they secured through Sallah International. “Yes,” Corradini and Ross told the attorney, it was their understanding the interest they paid on the loans was tax deductible. Beus characterized the arrangement as Corradini and Ross paying themselves off. But Corradini and Ross’s attorney, Max Wheeler, told Beus that such an arrangementwas “no different than if 1 owned stock in a bank and borrowed money from “All of it got reimbursed by Sal- lah, whether it was business or pleasure?” “Right,” Corradinisaid. She said she was unclear how Sallah operated, but at the time trusted Dunlop. Corradini and her husband explained about their home loans, that bank and then paid it back.” In June, federal prosecutors filed a 59-count indictment against four ex-Bonneville Pacific figures — Robert Wood, L. Wynn Jobnson, David Hirschi and Ray- mond Hixson. The indictment claims they used foreign corporations including Sallah to bilk shareholders. Corradini and Ross were not named in that indictment, although federal investigators may still be looking to see if they have any tax liability for the mortgage loans ortrips. Anyliability she and her husband had to Bonneville Pacific for any of those transactions was taken care of two years ago when they agreed to pay a more than lee000 settiement to the trustTs a statement released Friday, Corradini said she “notified the court in advance thatI had no objection to the releasing of the documents.” Her initial agreement with the trustee was that the documents be kept private. “The information is more than two years old,” she continued, “and covers events from before I was mayor that have been thoroughly reviewed by the task force {probing| the Bonneville Pacific failure].”” Man Jailed for Allegedly Officials Still Looking for Violent Escapee Hoiding Girl, 16, Prisoner During 4-Day Ordeal, She Was Handcuffed, Cut With Razor Blade By Vince Horiuchi THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Carrie Paulson moved back in with her boyfriend, and it nearly cost her herlife. After the 16-year-old girl moved into the Salt Lake City apartment on Wall Street, the 29year-old man became angry and accusedher of spending time with his friends. Heallegedly handcuffed herinside the apartment, held her prisenerfor four days,sliced her with a razor blade andthreatenedher, according to a Salt Lake City police report. She escaped Thursday and police arrested him that same day. He was being held in the Salt Lake County Jail Friday. The man had handcuffed Poulsen and told her she couldn’t leave or call police, according to the report. He had told her, “if a [police officer] shows up to the door, I’m going to kill you and then answer the door,‘Howcan I help you?’" At one point, he wanted to visit a friend in WestValleyCity, so he ed her to the door of his car. She tried to pry the cuffs open with a metal piece from a car lighter but was unsuccessful. He then took her back to the apartment, handcuffed her to a chair and struck her twice on the By Vince Horiuchi THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Charles A. Cooper is a violent man with a history of armed robberies, burglaries, attempted murders and prison escapes. And, now he’s on the loose. The 44-year-old man broke out of the Grand County Jail in Moab Wednesday. Cooper scaled a 16-foot brick wall by climbing a basketball stand in the exercise yard. Then he squeezed througha 1-foot hole in a metal fence atop the brick wall. A second person may have helped him by cutting through the fence. There have been reports of sightings in Provo, Salt LakeCity, St. George and Colorado, but head with the wooden handle of an ax, She suffered a contusion aroundher right eye and a cut on her chin, according to the report. “You're lucky it was only your chin that got cut,” he purportedly said. The suspect also allegedly Sliced her leg with a razor and scratched herface. Thursday afternoon, he handcuffed her again to the car door and drove to a convenience store near 600 North and 300 West. When he went inside, Paulson found the hidden key to the cuffs, unlockedherself and ran behind a bush. Heleft, and she called po- none has been substantiated, said Grand County sheriff's Sgt. Kert lice. She was treated at LDS Hospi- Green. Cooper was airested in Moab tal and released. last month for possessing three Police arrested the man at his guns, whichis iliegal for a conapartment. Officers recovered victed felon. He also had a sawedhandcuffs,a razorblade, knife, ax off shotgun, said authorities. handle, a box of .380-caliber amSince 1970, the escapee has munition and two empty gun mag- been charged with 35 felony ofazines. Officers also recovered a fenses and has served prison in small bag they believed contained Nevada, Arizona and Texas, said drugs and paraphernalia. Utah Department of Corrections Prosecutors will review the case early next week. The Salt Lake Tribune names suspects when they are formally charged. {| Reglaze Your | Salt Lake City police Sgt. Dana Bath Tub I Orgill said officers also respond- i ed to a domestic violencecail last i ularly i month on ions he had beat her. “I feel better now that I’m away,” said Paulson, who is living Her with her parents: “I’m glad.that he is away from the public. You never know,he could akip me and go onto somebody else.” spokesman Jack Ford. Cooper has been convicted of numerous armed robberies, burglaries, firearms offenses and two counts of attempted mur- § der. The inmate Charles Caoper “He is definitely considered armed and dangerous,” said John Minichino,special agent in charge of the Salt LakeCity office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call 1-800ATF-GUNS. was servingtime in a Nevada prison for robbery and attempted murder when he was paroled in March. 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