Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday August 13 1998 — Page Man stumbles over sweepstakes ByPariVWbom St Petersburg Times TAMPA FIs — Douglas Mickity came to i OB Tuesday looking for $11 minion in sweepstakes winnings Instead the retired doonnan from Queens NY ended up in the middle of a squabble between the Florida Attorney General's Office and American Family Publishers Mickity spent 26 hours on a Greyhound bus with a pack of sweepstakes entries in his hand and what he thought was a written from American Family's celebrity AP photo Aibah Jo Weston puts her hand on her huebanrft ehoulder as Rueeel Eugene Sr makes a statement at a press conference outside DC General Hospital in Washington on Wednesday after visiting toeir son Russel Eugene Weston Jr attrehoepML "Ed McMahon came out bluntly and said I was the winner" he said But like dozens of other people who have come to Ihmpa in recent yean dunking they were about to be millionaires Mickity was wrong Mickity 66 said he sometimes spends as much as $200 a month on books and magazines hoping to win the sweepstakes His pension is S2S0 a month and with his Social Security check his monthly income is about $900 he said "I ran short of food now and then the fourth neck of even month” he said A small balding man who suffers from epilepsy Mickity arrived in Tampa on the day the two sides were in court fighting oxer the release of company documents in the attorney general's lawsuit against the sweepstakes company Outside the courthouse an attorney general's investigator introduced Mickity to Jovcph Shaheen the lawyer for American Family and Time Customer Service Mickity and Shaheen were surrounded by reporters and camera crews that had Keen alerted by the attorney general's office Shaheen called the introduction an ambush A spokesman for the company said he was ‘ at what was an outright publicity Jim Lyons the attorney general's investiga- tor said he took Mickity to the courthouse because he believed company officers would be at the hearing and would talk to Mickitv about his concents Lyons later dropped Mickitv off at the Time Customer Service office Jeanne Meyer a companv spokeswoman said Mickity was being taken care of and wonld be put on an airplane hack to New York and met there hv a companv represent live "You can be sure we are taking care of th- gentleman" Mcvcr said "Ve don't feel gorsl about today" American Familv Publishers has endured barrage of bad publieitv and lawsuits since last November when the St Petersburg Times first wrote about RkharJ lusk a Cali forma man who came to Tampa thinking he was a sweepstakes winner Since then more than 20 other people have show n up at the office of Time Customer Set vice seeking millions thev haven't won Tunc Customer Service and American Familv Ihib lishers are huh under the Time Warner corporate umbrella A former cmphncc who was responsible for meeting and turning awav these contestants has sued the companv lot emotional distress Some 40 private lawsuits have also been filed A panel of federal judges is on sum sidering whether to grant class-actioto some of those law suits January the Florida Attoincv (icnci al's Office sued both companies for violating Florida's consumer protection law s n si -v- Lawyers: Weston’s parents subpoenaed WASHINGTON (AP) — The parents of the suspect in the shooting deaths of two Capitol police officers were ordered to appear today before a federal grand jury that could indict their son for murder Lawyers for Rnssell Weston Jr’s mother and father hive challenged foe subpoenas and chief US District lodge Norma Holloway Johnson was to hold a closed hearing today to decide whether drey most testify said their Washington lawyer Henry AsvilL If she rales they must Russell Weston Sr and Aibah Jo Weston would go before a grand jury already sitting at foe couifoouse Federal prosecutors issued foe subpoenas at a hospital as the Westons visited their bedridden son recovering from gunshot wounds sustained in die July 24 attack AsviH said "No parent wants to testify in a matter pertaining to their son" AsviH said Wednesday Nevertheless he said Weston's parents don't object to testifying later but were startled at the subpoena coming Tuesday as they made their first contact with their son since foe shootings AsviH said "I have a problem with the insensitivity' he told reporters outside DC General Hospital where Weston has been shackled to a bed and under heavy police guard since shortly after a gunman cut down officer Jacob Back to School with Chestnut and detective John Gib- son in a busy hallway of the Capitol sitverTab jeans then and ond had their brother-in-la- w : of two scheduled visits with "BmicalfyvreSdhim foal we love him and font he has cur support" Weston's father said Weston 41 also met with his family for two hours Toesday — their first contact with Weston since he left foe family home m Valmeyer 111 a day before the shootings two guns with him from Illinois 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