Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 10, 1995 TAG: 9509110113
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
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NEW MARKET - The co-owner of New Market Airport in Shenandoah County walked away from a prison work camp in Petersburg with plans to steal an airplane, but was apprehended at the airport, authorities said Saturday.
Another inmate is still at large, authorities said.
Ed Rainey and Albert Ballantine walked away from the Federal Correctional Institute's minimum security camp in Petersburg about 6 a.m. Friday, said Eugene Ray, a spokesman for the prison. The camp is for white-collar criminals not thought to be a danger to the public and has no fences or barricades, Rainey said.
Rainey was apprehended Friday afternoon at the airport, said Floyd Dugger of the U.S. Marshals' office in Richmond.
Dugger said it is believed Rainey planned to harm his wife, with whom he owned the airport, steal a plane and take the couple's two children with him.
Rainey was serving time for tax evasion. His release date was September 1997, authorities said. He will be transferred to a more secure facility, Ray said.
- Associated Press
Lawmaker home after cancer surgery
RICHMOND - Rep. Norman Sisisky has been released from Medical College of Virginia Hospitals after undergoing surgery for colon cancer.
A spokesman for the 68-year-old Petersburg Democrat said Friday the lawmaker went home to recuperate. In surgery Aug. 30, a polyp-like growth was removed from his colon, and it later was determined to be cancerous.
No further evidence of cancer was found in the surgery, his spokesman said.
- Associated Press
Worker killed in fall from water tank
WAYNESBORO - A construction worker was killed when he fell 40 feet from a water storage tank under construction.
Robert Woodson, 29, of Newport, Tenn., was pronounced dead at the scene Friday by Dr. Malcolm Tenney, Augusta County medical examiner. The body was taken to Augusta Medical Center for further examination.
Woodson was employed by Crom Corp. of Gainesville, Fla., which specializes in the construction of pre-stressed concrete tanks. The sides of the tank are 30 feet high with another 10 feet to the top of a curved dome. The tank is 73 feet in diameter.
- Associated Press
Developers owe U.S. $8.6 million
RICHMOND - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that four principals in a company that sold lots in the Lake Monticello development in Fluvanna County are liable to the federal government for $8.6 million.
U.S. District Judge James H. Michael Jr. ruled last year that the bankruptcy of three of the officers in Cost Control Marketing and Sales Management of Virginia Inc. did not relieve them of their obligation to pay the money.
Michael found that the company had made excess profits because it had violated the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act by failing to register with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, failing to make the disclosures required by the act, and failing to inform purchasers of their right to rescind and refusing to rescind when they asserted that right.
Those violations and high-pressure, misleading sales techniques enabled the company to sell the lots at more than three times their assessed value, the three-judge 4th Circuit panel said Friday.
- Associated Press
Impotence clinic agrees to halt claims
ALEXANDRIA - Operators of a clinic where patients allegedly were treated for impotence by unlicensed workers have agreed to stop making claims about their services, the Federal Trade Commission said.
George and Linda Oprean did not admit that they had practiced medicine without proper licenses, but they agreed not to represent themselves as doctors, the FTC said Thursday.
Commission officials also said the Opreans could be ordered to refund fees to some patients. Operating as Genetus Alexandria in the early 1990s, the clinic treated about 2,000 men for impotence with the medication prostaglandin. The commission alleges that Genetus officials falsely advertised that a doctor would examine every patient and that the treatment was completely safe and effective.
George Oprean would not answer questions about the settlement, but he issued a news release that called the FTC allegations ``greatly exaggerated.''
- Associated Press
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