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Show Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel, October 5, 1990 3 News Former Family Savings chairman is indicted The former chairman of the nation’s third largest black-owned thrift, Family Savings and Loan Association, was indicted last Thursday on charges that he used the thrift’s own funds to buy a controlling stake. A. Trigg, charged Oliver with 15 spiracy, bank 39, was counts of Jr., con- fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, and making false Statements to federal regulators in his purchase of the Crenshaw District thrift. ‘Trigg joined Family Savings’ board in 1986 and bought 51 percent of its stock in August 1987. He stepped down under pressure’ from regulators in May 1988. The thrift, a 41-year-old institution recently renamed Family Federal Savings Bank, has survived several years of financial trouble and reportedly is returning to profitability this year under new management. William A. Powell, a 51-year-old real estate developer from Los Angeles, is charged in an ‘‘information’’ with making false statements in loan applications and tax fraud. The filing of an information, rather than an lew nat’! black organization established indictment, requires the defendant’s permission and is often part of a plea bargain. However, With Leiter would not comment if there ~ dance taei3 iki FEED, _Last.seTuesday;'ar black burexthat San family acts of racial paressaer and Archie a Jewish section of an financial African *To develop a braintrust to Hostage negotiator — Happy civil rights leader Jesse Jackson gives the thumbs up sign early Sunday at Paris’ Orly Airport as he stands in front of the chartered Iraqi jetliner that flew more than 300 Westerners out of Baghdad. —AP Worldwide Photo — ‘Mandela invited by In d ians to visit Wounded Knee swastikas. | Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) — A group Francisco, authorities said. ‘‘T think San Francisco is not, by © vn irae i named publisher of Stockton Record from California Publisher Reprinted by permission impeachment (AP) of with Judge faces Francisco resources Oakland was “painted Orage. Quarles III, Gannett Co. Inc.’s 1989 ‘‘Publisher of the Year,’’ U.S. has been named publisher and presi- District Judge Robert Aguilar risks dent of the Stockton Record. impeachment and up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of leaking a wiretap to a former mobster and lying to the FBI. Aguilar, 59, became the third federal judge convicted on a elony in the last decade. He was acquitted of three other Quarles, charges, including the main one, that he agreed to use his influence with a fellow judge on behalf of a former Teamsters leader convicted of embezzlement. The federal jury deliberated more than four days. It was the second time Aguilar was tried on the charges. At his first trial, in March, a jury deadlocked on seven charges and ac‘ quitted him of one. Aguilar, 59, who was appointed by President Carter in 1980, could get five years in prison and a $250,000 on each offence at sentencing Nov. 1. _ Aguilar also could be impeached and removed from office by Congress unless the convictions are overturned on appeal. Robert Aguilar Defense lawyer Paul Meltzer said he expected to appeal. He refused to say if Aguilar might resign to avoid impeachment. *T think it ends a long and distinguished career,’’ Meltzer said of the verdict. ‘‘I don’t think we’re going to see Judge Aguilar continue as a federal judge after his sentencing unless something happens at a later date.”’ 7 In 1984, U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne of Nevada was convicted of tax evasion, and in 1986, U.S. District Judge Walter Nixon of Mississippi was convicted of perjury. Don't drink and drive! Hooks American communities: ago;,thé home of a black family in Valley. sectors of the community,’’ said. day meeting that attracted a wide § diversity of groups ranging from the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The basic purposes of the new body, as presented by Dr. Hooks at the press conference, are: *To establish a communications network for _ sharing and | disseminating information; *To maximize the human and: cemetery were toppled. Two weeks any means, a liberal city. People around the bay have launched pro- think it is, but it really is not,’’ said grams to fight a wave of attacks - Lulann McGriff, president of the San_ against Asians, Hispanics, blacks, Francisco chapter of the NAACP. and Jews. ‘*Racism is alive and well in San Last week’s fire followed quieter Francisco. ’’ San of violence. Two weekends ago, gravestones in The last time someone ignited a cross was a year ago in San Leandro. Hate literature, racist graffiti, and threats are reported every day in San lives with her stepmother, Conference meeting within the next two weeks. at the heart of the summit meeting was the basic theme of ‘‘self-help’’ efforts on the part of the AfricanAmerican community. ‘‘A fact that often escapes the attention of the general populace is that there are many, many strong and viable organizations within the African-American community who have for years been putting forth remarkable efforts in seeking to stitch up the tattered fabric found in some The decision to set up the new, Hills, a certified public accountant who allegedly prepared false tax returns for Trigg and others. Cottle was also indicted separately for allegedly embezzling $165,000 from Union Bank. middle class home. “You never think it’s going toi haps pen, living in the suburban area that Mae Gilbert, and two brothers. In recent months, communities at a Summit mendations on the socio-economic concerns affecting the black community and develop strategies to ad- group came as the climax to a three- James E. Cottle, 45, of Stockton, a former Union Bank loan officer, and James E. Williams, 44, of Chino Castro Belle, who research, analyze, and make recom- efforts. The Trigg case is one of the 100 top priority savings and loan fraud cases being investigated by the Justice Department nationwide, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurice Leiter. Also named in the indictment were awoke to find:a wooden:cross engulf_ed in flames on the front lawn of their we do,”’ said Monique of approx- Black Organizations called by the was a plea bargain in this case. NAACP in Washington, D.C., en- dress those concerns; : The indictment charges Trigg with . dorsement was given to the establish*To identify and replicate effective raising the $1.24 million to finance ment of a new group — the National self-help initiatives in local his stock purchase through « Association of Black Organizations communities; fraudulent series of transactions in- (NABO) — to help in the battle *To develop strategies for volving real estate in Whittier know: against the social and economic pro- strengthening support of Africans “‘Friendly Hills Estates.’’ | blems afflicting a sizeable part of the American institutions. Trigg allegedly used Powell to ac! black community. A smaller executive committee has as a “‘straw purchaser’’ of Friendly Announcement of the new group been appointed to work out the details Hills and then had Family Savi:(7s was made at a recent press con- of the new organizations and is exlend Powell $2.5 million to deve! si: ‘erence by Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks, pected to convene for its initial the property. About $1.7 million af -<ecutive director of the NAACP, that money was allegedly launder::' who said it “‘does not duplicate the into Trigg’s personal accounts, soxic work of any existing organization, of which was used in the purchase oi but rather represents an approach that the thrift. will enhance and strengthen their ] Cross burning startles Bay area San Francisco (AP) — A cross ning in Union City is the latest ample of dramatic “‘hate crimes’’ have startled residents of the Francisco Bay area. representatives imately 100 organizations in atten- 39, had been publisher of Native Americans will invite Nelson Mandela to Wounded Knee, saying the visit would honor those killed at the massacre 100 years ago and call attention to the problems of Indians today. ‘“We are inviting Mandela because we believe our plight is somehow or other related to the plight of (black South Africans),’’ said Marie Not Help Him of Pine Ridge. Not Help Him said she plans to send the letter to the South African black leader this week. She will tell Mandela about her grandfather, Dewey Beard, who survived the Wounded Knee massacre. The massacre on December 29, and president of The Coloradoan in 1890 was the last significant confronFort Collins, CO since September tation between Indians and the U.S. 1987. Army. | Originally from Texas, Quarles Mario Gonzales of Black Hawk, a began his newspaper career at the San lawyer for the Wounded Knee SurBernadino Sun in 1969 after vivors Assocations, said Mandela’s graduating from San Bernardino Colvisit would highlight U.S. governlege. He spent 18 years with the Sun, ‘ment human rights violations. beginning as an apprentice com““We think that Wounded Knee positor and worked his way through represents a gross violation of human jobs in marketing and advertising. He rights, and even though it’s been 100 was director of advertising for the years, Native Americans are still benewspaper from 1984 to 1987 before ing deprived of human rights in terms being named as assistant to the presi- of health care, housing, and other dent of Gannett West Newspapers. needs,’’ Gonzalez said. In Fort Collins, Quarles served on ‘‘People have a right to perpetuate the board of directors for the United Way, Chamber of Commerce, Colorado State University Foundation, the Contemporary Art Center, and a private economic development group called Fort Collins Inc. Quarles was also a trustee for the Colorado State University President’s Leadership Club... At the time of his appointment, Quarles said he hoped to settle the newspaper’s three-year contract dispute with the Stockton local of the Northern California Newspaper Guild. their culture, and yet if you look at U.S. policy towards Indians, we have no control over the education of our children. There is no mandatory requirement to teach Indian language or history. It’s a curriculum designed by whites and forced on our people,’’ he said. When Mandela visited the United States this summer, he said he would return in October and wanted to visit Indian country, Not Help Him said. That’s when the Wounded Knee Survivors Association of Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River decided to invite him, she said. If Mandela accepts the invitation, Indian groups will plan a ceremony at the mass grave site at Wounded Knee, where more than 150 Indians are buried. The associations also want the U.S. government to apologize for Wounded Knee. The groups have been working with South Dakota’s con-. gressional delegation to sponsor a compensation bill and establish a memorial at Wounded Knee, Gon- zalez said. The associations met last week to consider asking President Bush to authorize a memorial at Wounded Knee. The presidential order would designate property be set aside for a monument, Gonzalez said. But some at the meeting thought getting the monument through a presidential order might hamper efforts to get an apology from the U.S. government. **The decision was not to pick one (plan of getting a memorial) or the other but to try to work on both avenues,’’ Gonzalez said. Gonzales said representatives of the association will meet with Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S:D., Aug. 28 on legislation to give compensation to Indians for property confiscated at Wounded Knee and grant an apology. If Daschle and members of the Survivors Associations reach agreement on the contents of the legislation, Gonzalez said he hopes a bill can be introduced in Congress this fall. The groups also have been work- ing with Rep. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. ‘““We’re moving ahead, but at a tur- tle’s pace,’’ Gonzalez said. The 100th anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee will be marked in December. The Indian groups want a memorial established _by then. |
