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Electrocution blamed in worker's death

Thursday, 16 May 2013 04:20 Published in Local News

   A Florissant man is dead after being electrocuted at a north county manufacturing plant.  

   An employee of St. Louis Cold Drawn arrived just after 4:00 a.m. Wednesday and found 55 year old Mach Nguyen lying on the ground next to an electrical box.  Burnt strands of hair were found on one of the coils.

   Nguyen was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.  

   St. Louis Cold Drawn makes cold-finished steel bars.

   The City of Ellisville is still without a mayor after the City Council vote to reinstate ousted Mayor Adam Paul ended in a 3-3 tie Wednesday night.  

   The result surprised many residents and Paul supporters.  That's because one of three new council members who took offices after Paul was impeached voted not to reinstate him.  Many had believed that council member Cindy Pool had been a Paul supporter.  

 Paul says he was disappointed with Pool's vote.  He says she isn't listening to her constituents and that's going to be costly.  "You know, it's going to cost the city probably a quarter-million dollars now," he said.  "It's just more of the same we had with our last council."

  Paul's attorney says he'll ask a judge next week to reinstate Paul while he awaits a ruling on his appeal.  The court date for that appeal hasn't been set.  

   The Council did agree to hold a special election for Mayor in November.

 

Kirkwood woman convicted of tax fraud

Thursday, 16 May 2013 02:29 Published in Local News

   ST. LOUIS (AP) - A St. Louis County woman has been found guilty of federal charges for illegally claiming more than $3 million in tax refunds.

   A federal jury convicted 69 year old Nancy Cicero of Kirkwood Wednesday on four counts of filing false claims with the IRS. A sentencing date was not set.

   Federal prosecutors say Cicero claimed false refunds for the years 2005 through 2008 on taxes she claimed to have paid on bond income, and falsified documents as part of the scheme.

   The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Cicero is an adherent of a theory claiming that those with knowledge of proper procedures can obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in their name being held in trust by the government. An IRS investigator called the argument "frivolous."

   

 

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