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...prosecution witness in last year's Fogg coin theft trial last week filed suit against Harvard in Middlesex Superior Court for negligence in supervising University employees who allegedly crippled him in a beating...
Martin Regan asked in the suit for damages of $1.7 million each from Harvard and two detectives hired by the University to investigate the 1973 theft of more than 5000 ancient coins, an estimated $5 million loss, from the Fogg Museum...
...pistols and instead stashed them in a safe. FBI agents found them there, along with seven other guns allegedly used by Ullo. The three witnesses told their stories last week at Ullo's bail hearing. Eugene Connor, 43, a man with an arrest record of car theft, said that he was Ullo's getaway driver on the night of the Molinas slaying. Reason for the hit, according to Connor: Molinas refused to pay a $50,000 debt to Ullo. Connor says he waited in the car while Ullo crouched behind a neighbor's backyard fence, waiting...
These legal uncertainties and intra-tribal divisions form a social drop for the legal process, which, according to the suit, alleges the "theft of the tribes" council, cites as a legal basis for the suit a long-buried act passed in 1790 known as the Indian Non-Intercourse Act. The provisions of the act state that no transfer of Indian lands can be made without the express approval of the federal government. Gay Head was incoporated in 1870, its status was changed from an Indian district, corresponding to today's reservation, to a town, with the approval of the Massachusetts...
...First National, New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Atlanta's National Bank of Georgia. Some 30 bank examiners and half a dozen lawyers so far have pored over more than 5,000 pages of documents. At night, guards patrol the offices to prevent any theft or tampering with evidence. Some portions of the report were being written last week, but the bulk of the investigation was still being pursued, under the direction of John G. Heimann, 48, the deceptively youthful comptroller...