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He rebukes federal agencies, orders them to negotiate Mpls. attorney’s FOIA request.By STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR [email protected]

A federal judge in St. Paul has sternly rebuked the U.S. Justice Department over its handling of a yearslong Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA ) request filed by a Minneapolis attorney who is researching the sale and mar-keting of oxycodone, a widely prescribed and highly addic-tive painkiller.

In an opinion issued Wednesday, Senior U.S. Dis-

trict Judge Paul Magnuson ordered the government to negotiate with attorney Chris Madel over the release of data withheld from FOIA requests that Madel filed in 2012 and 2013.

Attorneys for the Jus-tice Department and Drug Enforcement Administra-tion, Magnuson wrote, “have lost their credibility” with the

judge for refusing to negotiate and for publishing data online that they previously argued was too sensitive to ever share with Madel.

“The Court has given Defendants the benefit of the doubt throughout this liti-gation and Defendants have time and again failed to estab-lish that they deserve that benefit,” Magnuson wrote in

a nine-page opinion.Madel requested data on

the distribution of oxyco-done in Georgia by five enti-ties including big pharmacy chains such as CVS Caremark and Walgreen Company . Madel explained in a declara-tion that he wanted to serve as a resource for authorities to help counter an ongoing opi-oid problem affecting much of

the nation, “and the Southeast United States in particular.”

Madel’s FOIA requests sought the identity of each person or pharmacy to whom health care companies had distributed oxycodone and the quantity distributed. He also sought reports from a DEA database that tracks the flow of controlled substances.

Judge vindicates quest for data on opioids

Associate superintendent in Mpls. faced questions over program payments.

By BEENA RAGHAVENDRAN [email protected]

Minneapolis Public Schools has reinstated a senior admin-istrator after reviewing con-flict-of-interest questions about an after-school pro-gram that paid her more than $26,000.

Associate Superintendent Lucilla Davila returned to work last fall after being placed on administrative paid leave

during an inde-pendent inves-tigation into her role with the Windom Enrich-ment Resource Center (WERC). The program offers enrich-ment classes for a fee, and has given scholar-ships to students

who have needed extra after-school help.

Davila cofounded the pro-gram in 2011, when she was principal at Windom Span-ish Dual Immersion School . It expanded to other schools she oversees as an associate super-intendent.

The investigation came after Davila told the Star Tri-bune last year that she had never been compensated for WERC as principal or asso-ciate superintendent, and tax records showed that she had — $15,600 in 2013 and $11,000 in 2014, when she was listed as president of the organization.

The district found no rea-son for disciplinary action, Minneapolis schools said.

Davila was on leave from June 10 through Aug. 29 and was paid $29,933 over that time. Davila continued to

Schools reinstate senior official

Lucilla Davila returned to work in the fall.

Photos by JEFF WHEELER • [email protected] Minneapolis City Council member Abdi Warsame spoke with shopkeeper Fadumo Mohamed at Village Market, aka the “24 Mall,” on Thursday.

Warsame, who led Mayor Betsy Hodges on a tour, says tenants are too afraid of the Sabris to complain.

By ADAM BELZ • [email protected]

The Sabri family’s dominance of Somali-American merchants in Minneapolis must be broken, Council Member Abdi Warsame said this week, and he promised to lead an effort to build a new, cooperatively owned mall for East African businesses.

“The Somali community is not beholden to the Sabris,” Warsame said. “We need to have an alternative mall.”

Somali-American merchants in Minne-apolis have depended on Basim Sabri and his family, who manage several buildings across south Minneapolis, including the two largest collections of Somali businesses

in the Twin Cities — the Karmel Square Mall just off West Lake Street and the Vil-lage Market at the corner of 24th Street and Elliot Ave. S., better known as the “24 Mall.”

The two shopping centers are packed with nearly 350 small businesses combined, the majority of them owned by women.

They have also been flash points in neighborhood politics for years — plagued by code violations, squabbles with city offi-cials and neighbor complaints about park-ing, traffic, cleanliness and unpermitted construction.

Warsame, whose Sixth Ward includes the 24 Mall, said tenants are too scared of

A loud call for a better Somali mallMinneapolis council member says residents need alternatives to two problem-plagued malls owned by the Sabri family.

“This is a declaration that we are moving in a di≠ erent direction. The city of Minneapolis has to have the guts to enforce its own laws.”

City Council Member Abdi Warsame

They have 2 options, with results tallied this spring.

By JEAN HOPFENSPERGER [email protected]

About 450 clergy abuse victims, plus several hundred other creditors of the Arch-diocese of St. Paul and Min-neapolis, soon will be able to vote on competing compensa-tion plans presented in bank-ruptcy court.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Kressel approved a timeline Thursday for send-ing out the ballots — within about 30 days — and a 40-day response time. Creditors can vote for one of two competing

plans or none at all.Kressel also denied a

motion that would have allowed the survivors’ com-mittee to sue more than 100 parishes, schools and other Catholic institutions that received several million dol-lars in transfer payments from the archdiocese in the 90 days before it filed for bankruptcy.

The voting schedule rep-resents a key moment for survivors in the archdiocese’s bankruptcy case, which enters its third year this month. The courtroom was packed with attorneys and several abuse survivors with claims before the court who have been

Clergy abuse victims to vote on bankruptcy plans Bipartisan opposition

remains to complying with federal Real ID law.

By J. PATRICK COOLICAN [email protected]

Republicans leading Min-nesota’s Legislature hope for a quick push early this year to bring Minnesota into long-awaited compliance with the federal Real ID law, but oppo-sition from DFLers and even some Republicans leaves that far from certain.

If Minnesota misses a Jan-uary 2018 deadline, Minneso-tans will need a passport or other approved ID — rather than a regular Minnesota driver’s license — to board

commercial aircraft or enter military bases and some fed-eral facilities.

“The time is now to act,” said Rep. Dennis Smith, R-Maple Grove, the bill’s chief author. “We clearly are out of time,” he said.

Born out of recommenda-tions by the 9/11 Commission, a 2005 federal law sought to force states to upgrade their licenses to prevent criminals and terrorists from obtaining fakes or stolen identities.

The Minnesota Legislature passed a law in 2009 — with near unanimous support — that prevented the state from implementing the federal law. It was a protest of what some state lawmakers said was

House moves on ID law, but objections stand

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Richard Painter, former counsel to Bush, makes a plea for transparency.

By MIGUEL OTÁROLA [email protected]

Richard Painter , who was

the chief ethics lawyer to former President George W. Bush , had a lot to unpack dur-ing his talk Thursday at Edina City Hall.

“This has been a terrible two or three weeks for eth-ics,” Painter said in his lecture, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Edina.

Painter, who teaches cor-porate law at the University

of Minnesota, spoke to a full house about the conflicts of inter-est that he said President-elect Donald Trump and his team

must address before he takes office next week.

The days before Trump’s inauguration will be busy for the U.S. Office of Govern-ment Ethics, an ethics watch-dog for the executive branch, he said. Painter said the office needs to make sure no finan-cial conflicts emerge in the new administration, which he called a “billionaire’s club.”

“Nobody knew what the

Office of Government Eth-ics was until about a week or two ago, ” Painter said, adding that it would “be great to be obscure when you’re in gov-ernment ethics, because it means people are behaving themselves in Washington.”

Government ethics have been in the spotlight after House Republicans last week voted to gut the congressional ethics office. That decision was reversed the following day after a political uproar.

Unlike cabinet members, neither the president nor vice president are required by law to relinquish investments that may pose a conflict of interest. During a news conference

Wednesday, Trump’s lawyer said his holdings and invest-ments would be put into a trust and his sons Eric and Donald Jr. would run his businesses.

Painter said Trump, his team and family should put all their financial investments on the table.

“Do you want to give the appearance that you’re engag-ing in conduct that would be a criminal offense for anybody else who’s working for you, simply because you’re exempt from the statute?” Painter asked. “Or do you want to do what every other president has done and avoid the conflicts of interest?”

The Constitution bars

elected officials from receiv-ing payments from foreign governments. Any doubts about that, Painter said, could be answered if Trump dis-closed his income tax returns.

“Given the current situa-tion, the House and the Senate intelligence committees ought to be able to review all of the president-elect’s tax returns,” he said. “We ought to know what his business relation-ships are.”

Painter said that the actions of Trump family members also could pose a problem. Responding to a question, Painter said Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, newly appointed White House aide

Jared Kushner, should not talk business with Trump’s sons.

Painter served as ethics counsel for the White House from 2005 to 2007 and moved to Minnesota afterward.

At the start of his talk, Painter declared the “role of money in politics” to make up the most worrisome impact on American democracy.

“Whatever conflicts of interest we want to say that President-elect Trump brings into this administration, into Washington, it is disingenuous to say that he is bringing in a lot of corruption that we didn’t have there before,” he said.

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U of M law professor urges Trump team to come clean

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But R&B star Deborah Cox does the diva proud in a touring show at Orpheum.

By ROHAN PRESTON [email protected]

Deborah Cox still has the pipes.

The R&B diva of “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here” fame proved that she retains the goods in a touring musical adaptation of the 1992 Whit-ney Houston smash “The Bodyguard.”

Cox capped an evening of beautiful, emotive singing by rising like a deity on a podium at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis and belting the show’s biggest number, “I Will Always Love You.”

With soul-stirring power and dramatic authority, she infused her own spirit into that well-known song, even as her phrasing and diction invited comparison to Houston.

Houston sang the defini-tive version of that Dolly Par-ton composition while starring

as soul-diva-in-danger Rachel Marron in the 1992 film “The Bodyguard” opposite Kevin Costner, as former Secret Ser-vice agent Frank Farmer .

Rachel is threatened by a demented stalker. Frank’s protection of her leads to an entanglement of hearts. The script, adapted for the stage by Alexander Dinelaris, enlarges the role of The Stalker (a truly scary Jorge Paniagua ) and makes other tweaks.

But while adding songs, Dinelaris shies away from character development in his book, which often is inert and weak. In strongly crafted musicals, the action and music build on each other to push the story along, ramp up the tension and deliver small cli-maxes. Here, we often have a song for its own sake.

Of course, that didn’t hurt the ABBA-drenched “Mamma Mia!” Producers of “The Body-guard,” which premiered in London in 2012 and launched a national tour last month (this is the second stop), are counting on folks forgiving everything

else because of the music from the best-selling soundtrack of all time.

As Frank, Judson Mills is stone-faced until late in the show, like an emotion-less automaton. On the other hand, Jasmin Richardson, who plays Rachel’s ignored sister, Nicki, shows her heart early, and invites us into her small journey as she finds hope and heartbreak in numbers such as “Saving All My Love for You” and “All at Once.” Richardson matches Cox’s vocal power with a gorgeous range.

The show also includes a good dose of cuteness in the form of Kevelin B. Jones III

as Rachel’s son, Fletcher. His “Jesus Loves Me” was charm-ing.

“Bodyguard” feels haunted — or blessed, take your pick — by the spirit of Houston, who died Feb. 11, 2012, ten months before the show first bowed. That may be because this pro-duction, directed efficiently but without much flair by Thea Sharrock , feels more like a trib-ute concert than a musical.

Look at the evidence: Of the 16 musical numbers, nine were added for the stage ver-sion, including “Saving All My Love,” “All at Once” and “I Wanna Dance With Some-body.” Notice a pattern? All nine are from Houston’s cata-log.

But who’s complaining? Certainly not Wednesday’s capacity crowd, which stood and clapped along for the encore, their enthusiasm tell-ing Cox and company that they had done the late diva proud.

Rohan Preston 612-673-4390Twitter: @rohanpreston

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Whitney Houston haunts ‘Bodyguard’ stageThe BodyguardWho: Book by Alexander Dinelaris based on the 1992 film. Directed by Thea Shar-rock.When: 8 p.m. Fri.; 2 & 8 p.m. Sat.; 1 & 6:30 p.m. Sun. Where: Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Av. S., Mpls.Tickets: $38-$134. 1-800-982-2787 or hennepinthe-atretrust.org.

The attorney, who works for Robins Kaplan in Minneap-olis, said he does not repre-sent any drug companies and would be willing to submit to a court order prohibiting sharing the data with anyone other than law enforcement authorities.

In justifying its refusal to release records, the gov-ernment has relied “almost solely” on broad objections by the health companies sub-ject to the request, Magnuson wrote on Wednesday. Those companies so far failed to show that releasing any part of the data would cre-ate “competitive harm,” he said, and government attor-neys have repeated the same “overly general responses” to Madel’s requests that appel-late judges have since taken issue with.

In his order, Magnuson said attorneys for the agency have so far “refused to engage in serious discussions” to find a possible solution to the dispute.

But a Justice spokesman on Thursday said “we have engaged in extensive good faith negotiations with the plaintiff in this matter. We expect those negotiations to continue moving forward.”

The DEA produced some records two months after Madel sued but omitted a report listing quarterly retail drug distributions by ZIP code, and specific sales records for four of the five entities requested. CVS was not doing business in Georgia at the time of the requests, the government said.

Attorneys argued that the omitted data contained information that could be used “to determine the com-panies’ market shares, inven-tory levels, and sales trends in particular areas.” Magnuson sided with the government in April 2014 and later denied a

request for attorneys fees by Madel, who then appealed the judgments.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to the district court because it said the govern-ment had not shown “with reasonable specificity” why it could not separate data that is exempted from the FOIA law from nonexempt records being withheld from Madel.

An attempt to compro-mise by limiting the scope of Madel’s request was still opposed by the government. Meanwhile, the DEA also published last year a report it previously withheld from Madel, just months after attorneys argued against its release in court.

Magnuson asked the government last month to provide under seal a single page from one spreadsheet to be examined, but attor-neys instead filed a “fil-tered” excerpt from several spreadsheets; Madel argued that spreadsheet rebutted their own claim that it was “not possible or practical” to search for and remove sensi-tive data before publishing.

On Wednesday, Magnu-son ordered the disclosure of redacted spreadsheets unless both side can negoti-ate a release of such data.

The judge said a buyer’s county, business activity, drug type, transaction date, dosage units and total grams for the years Madel requested would not be exempt under FOIA and could reasonably be separated from exempt information in the spread-sheets.

Madel’s attorney, Jenny Robbins, said her client “is really happy with the order,” and added that “we are hop-ing the government will start negotiating with us.”

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check and respond to e-mails with district permission, and returned to work in the fall, district officials said.

State law prevents the dis-trict from giving additional information about the inves-tigation, officials said.

“WERC provides an important service for many of our families, especially those who depend on it for after-school child care,” said an e-mailed statement from the district.

Davila did not respond to multiple requests for comment. She said in a Star Tribune story in June that she was no longer a board member of the organization, though sometimes worked as

an adviser.Questions arose after

Davila took an associate superintendent position in charge of magnet schools, including Windom. The WERC program expanded, and last school year it was offered at Kenny, Windom, Sheridan and Emerson. All schools but Kenny are in her portfolio.

The Minneapolis school board approved a $150,000 contract with WERC with-out knowing of Davila’s rela-tionship with the organiza-tion, according to Rebecca Gagnon, then the school board’s finance chairwoman.

Since then the program’s name has changed to the Bilingual Learning Center, to “be less confusing for our new families and more inclu-sive of our other program locations,” the website said. Its winter 2017 catalog and website noted that the pro-gram now runs at two sites: Windom School and Risen Christ Catholic School.

Program officials declined to comment for this report.

Beena Raghavendran • 612-673-4569

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GIL COHEN MAGEN • AFP/Getty ImagesArt Garfunkel, shown in 2015, took the stage at the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis on Thursday as he continues to recover from vocal cord paresis in 2010, which forced the cancellation of a Simon & Garfunkel tour.

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His hair and voice have faded, but the nostalgia he conjures stays strong.

By JON BREAM [email protected]

There was a wild wisp of a curl — just one — in the middle of his bald pate. His voice was still pretty and often angelic if softer. His songs sounded so nostalgic to children of the ’60s, who are now in their 60s and 70s.

Art Garfunkel, the lesser half of Simon & Garfunkel, serenaded an appreciative sell-out crowd Thursday night at the Pantages Theatre in Min-neapolis. Paul Simon’s songs were there but not his ambi-tion, innovation and clever-ness. Garfunkel was intent on making pretty music, and he did. And he was intent on dem-onstrating who this 75-year-old eccentric is, a world trav-eler who sings to cows, acts with Jack Nicholson and pens “prose poems” (his term) on the back of envelopes.

Oh, he’s married to a Twin Cities woman and he assures us that Minnetonka Nice is superior to Minnesota Nice because it’s sexy. Take his word for it.

Garfunkel sang lots of words that Simon wrote for him. But he also spoke many of his own, which will be pub-lished in September by Alfred A. Knopf . He read them from envelopes, mini-essays about moments in his life. He saluted his father (“your beautiful musical soul is the author of mine”), waxed poetic about performing at London’s pres-tigious Royal Albert Hall (he’d scribbled the words in Hyde Park) and reminisced about singing in synagogue as a 10-year-old (he broke into a Hebrew prayer and touted the acoustics of temples and the Pantages).

Between the poems and spontaneous conversation (about his wife, sons, cell-phones at concerts, the vocal paresis that sidelined him in 2010 and, of course, Paul Simon), concertgoers got to know Garfunkel. He was gra-

cious, grateful and quick-wit-ted. There was no evidence of his testy, prickly side, which often surfaces in interviews. He praised Simon, even though their famously frac-tured friendship (they met in grade school) has derailed any chance of another reunion, at least according to what Simon told Rolling Stone last year.

So Garfunkel keeps it small in concert. Just keyboardist Dave Mackay and Wayzata-bred acoustic guitarist Tab Laven . There were no vocal harmonies, a trademark of Simon & Garfunkel. But Gar-funkel’s solo voice sounded familiar if fading during two 40-minute sets.

His reedy tenor has grown smaller and thin. It’s still pretty, like a whispering angel. But he’s unable to reach the high notes on classics like “Home-ward Bound.” On “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” he sounded weary at the beginning and troubled and flat as the song rolled on. It was far from epic.

Garfunkel was more effec-tive playing things small. The attentive crowd gave spir-

ited applause to the dreamy “Kathy’s Song” (one of Gar-funkel’s favorite Simon songs, he said) and “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,” the lullaby that served as the lone encore selection.

Saying “there’s no Paul Simon in this,” Garfunkel offered one of his own com-positions, 2002’s “Perfect Moment,” which featured lovely swirling guitar and key-boards but unmemorable love lyrics. He did other selections from his solo career, including a medley of “A Heart in New York” and “All I Know,” which he ended on a low, not high, note.

To the crowd’s delight, Gar-funkel did justice to the songs of Simon — obscure ones like “The Side of a Hill” and clas-sics like “Scarborough Fair,” with its gorgeous guitar chord-ings. This performance wasn’t nearly as exciting, enriching or adventurous as Simon’s two concerts at the Orpheum Theatre last summer. But it is all Garfunkel knows.

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Court takes testimony on who should be appointed as the estate’s co-executor.

By DAVID CHANEN and DAN BROWNING Star Tribune staff writers

A Carver County judge over-seeing the Prince estate said Thursday that he would not yet definitively name the heirs to his vast fortune , but indicated that the late musician’s siblings would be among them.

District Judge Kevin Eide approved the application of Comerica Bank & Trust to replace Bremer Trust as special administrator and took testi-mony over whether to appoint either CNN political commen-tator and attorney Van Jones or New York entertainment attor-ney L. Londell McMillan as co-executor of the estate. He made no decision on the latter point, however.

Prince’s siblings and pre-sumptive heirs are split over who should help manage the late musician’s estate .

Jones and McMillan each testified Thursday afternoon, outlining why they think their appointment would benefit the estate.

Prince’s sister, Tyka Nel-son, and half-brother Omarr Baker have filed objections to the proposed appointment of McMillan, who has been acting as a special adviser to Bremer Trust, the outgoing special

administrator appointed by the court after Prince’s acci-dental death from an overdose of painkillers in April.

Nelson and Baker alleged in court filings this week that McMillan has a conflict of inter-est because he gets a 10 percent commission on contracts the estate has signed thus far to mar-ket Prince’s music and persona.

The court filings include an affidavit from Randy Jackson, a brother of the late pop star Michael Jackson. He says that when McMillan represented

his mother, Katherine Jackson, he did not always act in her best interest but rather, acted at times to enrich himself.

Because Prince left no will, Tyka Nelson, and his half-sib-lings, Baker, Sharon Nelson, Norrine Nelson, John Nelson and Alfred Jackson, are likely heirs to his fortune, which has been estimated at between $100 million and $300 million before taxes, which are expected to claim roughly half.

Eide said pending appeals were holding up his final des-

ignation of heirs. Sharon Nelson endorsed

McMillan, saying he would communicate with the fam-ily and brings music industry knowledge the estate would need moving forward. She said Bremer, whose involvement in the Prince estate will end Jan. 31, didn’t do an adequate job staying in touch .

McMillan talked about his experience with other musi-cians and his 13-year relation-ship with Prince, helping him get out of a record contract

with Warner Bros. Jones testified about his

relationship with Prince and how he would work to unify the heirs. He put together the team that got Prince his origi-nal master recordings and publishing rights for his War-ner Bros. material, and quietly helped with the artist’s philan-thropic efforts.

The presumptive heirs now agree that Comerica should oversee the estate. All of the siblings except Tyka Nelson and Baker want McMillan appointed as co-representative.

Tyka Nelson and Baker support having Jones, who is Baker’s attorney, act as co-representative. They objected to McMillan’s appointment, arguing in court filings that he’s unreliable.

Star Tribune reporter Rochelle Olson contributed information to this report.Dan Browning • 612-673-4493David Chanen • 612-673-4465

Challenges raised in hand-off of Prince estate

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Photos by DAVID JOLES • [email protected] From left, Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson, half-sisters Sharon Nelson and Norrine Nelson and half-brother Omarr Baker have differ-ing views on who should act as co-representative on the estate. Van Jones and L. Londell McMillan are being considered.

St. Louis Park High notifies families that others may need to be screened.

By BEATRICE DUPUY [email protected]

St. Louis Park High School will screen students and staff for tuberculosis after someone at the school tested positive for the disease.

The St. Louis Park School District mailed letters notify-ing families Wednesday about whether the Hennepin County Department of Health recom-mends their student be tested .

The district was first alerted in late November when the Health Department found that an individual at the high school had active tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, which affects the lungs, is one of a group of diseases closely monitored by the state because it is highly infectious and potentially fatal.

By that time, the individ-ual was receiving care and did not pose a risk to anyone at the school. But the person had been in the school from September until November, before the diagnosis.

District officials said that privacy laws do not allow them to reveal whether the contagious individual was a student or staff member.

District Superintendent Rob Metz said in the letter that the Hennepin County Department of Health asked the district to delay notify-ing the community until the department could find out who needed to be tested.

The Health Department will test anyone who had any contact with the contagious person.

Free testing will take place on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31. Students who receive a letter saying they should be tested must return to school with a signed permission form before they can be tested. Students must return their signed form by Jan. 19. About 166 students will be tested, out of about 1,400 at the school, said Bill Belknap , spokesman for Hennepin County Department of Health.

According to that agency, it can take months for a case of tuberculosis to be found through testing. Students will be screened via a skin test.

“Although this is a unique situation for us, the Hennepin County Department of Health has dealt with similar situa-tions on numerous occasions,” Metz said in a letter to fami-lies. “We are working closely with them ... and are working to support our students and staff members in every way possible.”

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One case of TB is discovered at school

Photos by JERRY HOLT • [email protected]

The University of Min-nesota Physics Force team put on its Physics Circus on Thursday at Northrop audi-torium, treating thousands of elementary schoolers to quirky demonstrations. Above, Fred Orsted pounded on the “Giant Puffer,” which shoots fog out of one end when the opposite end is struck, showing the effect of inertia on gas. At right, students helped out with a tug-of-war trying to sepa-rate two rubber discs.

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Girlfriend still faces charges for her conduct.

By PAUL WALSH [email protected]

The man who along with his girlfriend disrupted a Los Angeles-bound flight last month, prompting the pilot to swing the aircraft back to the Twin Cities airport, will not be charged, his attorney said Thursday.

Blake Fleisig, 35, of Los Angeles, and Anna C. Koos-mann , 36, were arrested Dec. 28 by police at the Minneapo-lis-St. Paul International Air-port while still on the Delta airliner.

Fleisig was arrested and cited by police for disorderly conduct. Koosmann also was arrested, then cited for dis-orderly conduct as well as obstructing the legal process.

Defense attorney Alex

Spiro said Fleisig “will not be prosecuted for any offense whatsoever. This was solidi-fied in the last day or two.”

Prosecutor Christopher Renz all but confirmed Spiro’s

information, saying, “Right now, I don’t anticipate any charges.”

Misdemeanor charges remain against Koosmann, listed by police as being from Edina but shown in court records to be a resident of Los Angeles. She is due in court Feb. 24. Her attorney, Ryan Garry, said he was aware there would be no charges filed against Fleisig.

Two weeks ago, Flight

2565 left about 6:20 p.m. only to show up back at the Twin Cities airport at 7:35 p.m.

A passenger who captured some of the episode on video said Koosmann wanted to use the bathroom, but became agi-tated after being ordered back to her seat. Police led the cou-ple off the plane, said Patrick Whalen, who shot the video and posted it on YouTube.

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Lawyer: Man who disrupted Delta flight won’t be charged

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An anonymous donor will give $10 million to the College of Saint Bene-dict to create the Center for Ethical Leadership in Action, which will aim to increase opportunities for experi-ential learning such as study abroad , undergraduate research, service learn-ing, internships and fellowships.

The $10 million commitment, which will create a permanent endow-ment , is the largest gift in the college’s history.

School officials said the center will help an increasing number of stu-dents who can’t afford an unpaid internship or other experiential learning. The college, and its academic partner Saint John’s University , require that every student complete four credits of experiential learning .

The college plans to begin awarding stipends as early as summer 2017.

“We are grateful for the donors whose vision and generosity have cre-ated the center,” President Mary Dana Hinton said. “It positions us as a leader among liberal arts colleges nationally in developing women’s leadership capac-ity .”

Internships and other opportunities will be designed to nurture ethical women leaders in fields from busi-ness to medicine to education and beyond. The center also will support a mentoring program and speaker series.

“Having the center will enable us to focus our educational program-ming and opportunities on ethical leadership, which has always been central to our mission,” said Richard Ice , CSB/SJU provost.

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$10M gift to Saint Ben’s for fostering ethical leaders

The largest gift in the college’s history will afford students the chance to do experiential learning.

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“He was a big guy with a big heart. ... He had indomitable spirit.” — Mount Olivet interim pastor Dennis Johnson

By KIM PALMER • [email protected]

Facing the end of his life, the Rev. John Hogenson-Rutford, senior pastor at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, was deter-mined to “finish well.” After he developed an inoperable brain tumor that affected his speech and mobility, he continued to “preach,” using his Caring Bridge page and a website, pastorhogenson.com , to

share sermons and uplifting stories.“Even though John didn’t have a voice, he still had a

message,” said his wife, Ruth.That message, to assure people that they were loved and

that God could use them as they were, became his final mis-sion. “It was like he had a whole new ministry,” said the Rev. Dennis Johnson, interim pastor at Mount Olivet. “He gave so much encouragement to people facing tough times.”

After his tumor was discovered in May 2015, and he suffered a stroke, Hogenson-Rutford, a marathon runner and avid bicyclist, worked tirelessly at therapy and rehab in hopes of returning to his church. “His ultimate goal was to get back to the pulpit at Mount Olivet,” said Ruth.

He battled for 18 months before dying at age 58 on Jan. 4, just five days after he decided to end treatment. “As he was going to hospice, he was giving me things he’d writ-ten,” said Ruth, along with instructions, such as “This is for after I die.”

Hogenson-Rutford was born in Owatonna and grew up in St. Paul’s St. Anthony Park neighborhood, where he met his future wife. They attended Gustavus Adolphus College together and married right before he began his studies at Luther Theological Seminary.

He had a gregarious personality and enjoyed practi-cal jokes. When his daughters had sleepovers, a favorite prank was to make buttermilk pancakes, pour the leftover

buttermilk into a glass for an unsuspecting guest to drink, then wait for the reaction.

He was known for welcoming congregants on the street or in the church parking lot. “It didn’t matter if it was 30 below, John was out greeting people,” said Ruth.

His passion for outreach was boundless. “He believed that religion was not some sort of fantasyland but had real applications for the broken and the hurting,” said the Rev. Mike Carlson, of St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Mahto-medi. Sometimes his vision ruffled feathers. “Whenever he started talking about investing in the poor, that can create a stir among the comfortable,” Carlson said. “But he got the church inspired.”

When Hogenson-Rutford was a pastor in Grand Marais, he started a service designed for people who didn’t gen-erally go to church, which brought some unusual visitors into the sanctuary.

After one such service, Ruth overheard a woman say, “The scum of the earth are here.” When she shared that comment with her husband, he was pleased that the ser-vice had served its purpose of inviting outsiders in. “He wanted to make sure faith was available to everybody,” she said.

At St. Andrew’s, where Hogenson-Rutford served as senior pastor from 2007 to 2014, he started a homeless shelter and a Community Resource Center that provided immediate necessities like food and winter clothes but also follow-up assistance such as job coaching to help ensure people didn’t end up homeless again. “He didn’t want to just give them things but figure out how to help them move ahead,” said Ruth.

In addition to his wife, Hogenson-Rutford is survived by three daughters, Kelly McKenzie , Jana and Kate Hogen-son ; grandchildren Connor and Megan; brother Matt; step-brother Chris Nelson and stepsister Katie Gonzalez. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 14 at Mount Olivet, 5025 Knox Av. S., Mpls., with visitation one hour before the service.

After brain tumor took his voice, he ministered online

The Rev. John Hogenson-Rutford Mount Olivet pastor



Marlyn Arthur Desens4-10-35 to 1-13-16

My dear wonderful husband, it hasbeen 1 year & I miss you every day.I thank God for our great life togeth-er. Our life verse is Romans 8:28.

Your loving wife, Helen

PAID NOTICESBeuch, Herman................. New PragueBremseth, Carroll................... Paris, TXBuesgens, Dennis................... WaconiaClark, Colleen.......................... WaconiaDittes, Lois................................ WillmarGrampre, Glenn................. FarmingtonJohnson, Madeleine........ BloomingtonJohnson, Wallace....................... AnokaKosel, Lelund......................... PlymouthMoses, Joal........................ St. AnthonyNoonan, Maureen......................... MplsOxley, Barbara...................... ChamplinPoppenhagen, Kermit..... Maple GroveSable, Patricia................. BloomingtonTrierweiler, Robert........ Golden ValleyTripanier,Robert..........Bloomington/Gilbert, AZWarn, Mavis................................... MplsWold, Howard................. West St. Paul

Johnson, WallaceRockwell “Wally”

age 85 ofAnoka, wasborn August17, 1931 in St.Cloud, Minne-sota, to ElinorJ eanne t te(Olson) John-son and JerryCarl Johnson.He grew up in

Delano, Minnesota. Hegraduated from DelanoHigh School in 1949. Hewas active in sports,

playing football and basketball. Hewas most active in baseball and be-gan his baseball pitching career onthe youth team started by FatherAndrew Handzel. Wally continuedhis baseball pitching and wasnamed MVP for St Cloud State Uni-versity and for the BAMC Comets inTexas. He was scouted for thePittsburgh Pirates as a pitcher.Wally actively chose to become aneducator as his first vocational loveand graduated from St Cloud StateUniversity with a degree in Elemen-tary Education in 1953 and earnedhis Master’s Degree of Science inEducation in 1954. He married Nao-mi Marie Hallberg of Lake Netta,Minnesota, on July 29, 1954 at ZionLutheran Church in Anoka, Minne-sota. Wally was subsequentlydrafted into the US Army and wasstationed in Texas. After discharge,Wally and Naomi became teachersfor the Bloomington, MN, district. In1959, the couple had one child, JillMarie Johnson. Wally was recruitedby the Anoka-Hennepin School Dis-trict 11 as a school principal and be-gan his career at Morris Bye Ele-mentary in 1958. Wally became theprincipal of Crooked Lake Elementa-ry School. Wally served as presi-dent of the Minnesota Associationof Elementary School Principals andalso served with the National Asso-ciation of Elementary School Princi-pals. He was a member of Phi DeltaKappa. Wally and Naomi were ac-tive members of the United Method-ist Church in Anoka and then theAnoka Wesleyan Church. Wallysang throughout his entire life, forweddings, church services, and fu-nerals. He was a member of manyquartets and choruses throughouthis lifetime. He was a member ofthe Anoka Area Kiwanis. After retir-ing, Wally started the InternationalBible Givers nonprofit organizationfor worldwide distribution of Bibles.Wally was devoted to God, family,and friends and his fondest desirewas that everyone would come toknow Jesus Christ as Lord and Sav-ior. Throughout life, Wally, Naomi,and Jill traveled together frequently— on road trips and plane trips.Wally had an endless sense of ad-venture. The day after being re-leased from a recent hospitaliza-tion, he attended the MinnesotaState Fair. He loved fishing and be-ing in nature from a boy onwards.He had the eye of a pitcher andcould focus with laser-like precisionon the task at hand. He had enor-mous determination and braverythroughout his entire life. There areno words to say how much hisfierceness and humor will bemissed. He was preceded in deathby his beloved wife Naomi “Tiger”;his cherished brother, Gerald John-son; his mentor/cousin, Dr. HarryOlson; and his much-loved parentsand in-laws, Jerry and Elinor John-son and Arnold and Marie Hallberg.He is survived by his daughter, JillM. Johnson; nieces and nephews,Tim and Marie Pearson, Steve andCarrie Johnson, Todd and JeaniePearson, Stacy and Peggy Jones,and Celia Pearson and Dickie Thay-er; cousins, Elizabeth Ann (House)Hillestad, Marcy (Hillestad) Zurn,Jeanette Bruhn; and step-grandchildren, Kerensa and Ramo-na Danielson. Visitation 4-7pm Sun-day, January 15, at Thurston-Lindberg Funeral Home, 2005Branch Ave., Anoka, MN --- StoryTime and Song Fest at 7 pm. Pleasecome with stories to share aboutWally and songs you would like tosing. Funeral service, 11 am Mon-day, January 16, at Anoka WesleyanChurch, 1930 Branch Ave. IntermentChamplin Cemetery. Memorials toAnoka Wesleyan Church and Inter-national Bible Givers.Thurston-Lindberg Funeral Home

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Moses, Joalage 68, of St. Anthony, passed awaypeacefully surrounded by family onJan 11, 2017. Arrgmnts pending.

Beuch, Hermanage 98 of New Prague died 1-11-17.Survived by wife Virginia (Zaun)Beuch; 10 children Jerry (Peggy),Buck (Diane), Shar (Greg) Scheffler,Terry (Linda), Kathy (Mike)Javenkoski, Mar (Mike) Kersting,Darleen (Jerry) Vonderharr, Jim(Cathy), John (Debbie), Colleen(Brad) Bartelds; 25 grandchildrenand 24 great-grandchildren. Serv-ices 11 AM Saturday, St. PaulLutheran Church, Prior Lake. Wake 2hours prior.

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Poppenhagen, Kermit“Kip”

Age 64 passed away Jan.10, 2017. Memorial Serv-ice 11am Saturday, Jan.14th with visitation 1

hour prior all at Advent LutheranChurch, 9475 Jefferson Hwy., MapleGrove.

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Sable, Patricia Annage 78, ofBloomington,passed awayon January10, 2017. Sur-vived by hus-band, Donald;sons, Scott(Kelly) Sableand Michael(Lisa) Sable;

daughters, Ann (Donald) Tracy andSusan (David) Kurschner; grandchil-dren, Nicole Sable, Katie (Lance)Watrin, Lauren, Brandon and Zach-ary Sable, Peter, Michael andKristen Kurschner and Emily andAudrey Tracy; great-grandchildren,Jake and Madelyn Watrin. She waspreceded in death by parents,Richard and Louella (Hall) Evensonand brother, David Evenson. Massof Christian Burial Tuesday, Jan. 17,at 11:00 AM at St. Richard’s CatholicChurch, 7540 Penn Ave. S., Richfield.Visitation Monday from 5:00 - 8:00PM at Morris Nilsen Chapel, 6527Portland Ave. S., and one hour priorto to Mass at the Church.Morris Nilsen Chapel 612-869-3226

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Dittes, Lois M. (Mueller)age 86, of Willmar, died January 11,2017. Funeral service 11 am Mon. atVinje Lutheran Church, Willmar.Surviving children: Maureen (Mike)Pierson, New London, PatriciaDittes, Willmar, Thomas Dittes,Spicer, Karla (Robert) Boe, Puposky,Rebecca (David) Gunderson, Litch-field, Phillip (Chris) Dittes, Anoka,Kurt (Jennifer) Dittes, Willmar.

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Trierweiler, Robert D.of Golden Valley andMedicine Lake Town-ship. Beloved brother,father and WWII Veteran

passed away 1/8/2017 at the age of92. Preceded in death by first wife,Peggy; daughter, Robin; wife,Evelyn; and sister, Isabel. Survivedby 1 brother and 5 sisters. Memori-als preferred to Wounded WarriorProject. Interment Glen HavenMemorial Gardens. Service Satur-day 1/14, at 2:00 PM, with visitation1 hour prior at:

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Bremseth, Carroll R.(90) passed away on January 3, 2017in Paris, TX. He is preceded in deathby his wife Millie (nee Johnson)Bremseth, parents, siblings, and agrandson. He is survived by his wifeSharon (McNamara) Bremseth andmany loving friends and family.A memorial service will be held onFebruary 25th at 11:00 AM at GraceLutheran Church, Brooklyn Park MN.

Clark, Colleen R.age74 passedaway on Jan-uary 10, 2017.Preceded indeath by hus-band, Bill;mother, Gene-va; and sis-ter, Bonnie.Survived bydaugh t e r s ,

Connie (Ben) Raby and Heidi Clark(Jarret Bast); grandchildren, Lau-ren, Madison, Kelly, and Dane;many other loving relatives andfriends. Colleen touched many liveswith her grace, wit, and ability toget along with everyone. She wasespecially loved by her family andwill be greatly missed. Specialthank you to the amazing staff atThe Lighthouse of Waconia and toPresbyterian Homes - MinnetonkaShores for their hospice care.Memorial service will be held at alater date. Memorials preferred tothe Alzheimer’s Association orAmerican Lung Association.

Kosel, Lelund W.Age 91, formerly of Plymouth.Funeral 11 AM Wednesday at FortSnelling Historic Chapel, 1 TowerAve, Mpls. Full notice Sunday.

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Buesgens, DennisNorbert

age 67,passed awayon Monday,January 9,2017, peace-fully atR i d g e v i e wMedical Cen-ter, Waconia.MemorialMass of

Christian Burial will beSaturday, January 14 atSt. Joseph CatholicChurch Waconia. Visita-

tion starting at 9 a.m. with mass at11 a.m. Urn Bearers will be Dennis’sgrandchildren.Dennis was born in Shakopee onMarch 24, 1949 to Germain andAnnie (Rademacher) Buesgens, heattended St. Victoria CatholicSchool and Waconia High School. In1969, Dennis entered the UnitedStates Army and served in Korea.On May 6, 1972, he was united inmarriage to his high school sweet-heart, Debra Ann (Laumann) Bues-gens at St. Joseph’s Catholic Churchin Waconia and they were blessedwith two beautiful children, Belindaand Brian. Dennis’s children andseven grandchildren were his prideand joy and loved to spend everychance he could get with them, hisfavorite place to take them was theBuesgens Family Cabin in Rich-mond, MN, he loved to show themhow to fish and water ski and diveoff the dock with campfires in theevening. He also loved to have themtinker in his workshop on woodprojects or build them a fort andfour wheeling and hunting techni-ques.Dennis and Deb enjoyed travelingwith family and friends. He alsoloved spending time with his broth-ers and son and nephews at thedeer shack. He enjoyed workingpart-time with Koch Bus Co. inWaconia and all the children on hisbus route as he loved all theirsmiling faces.He was preceded in death by hisfather, Germain H. Buesgens andhis sister-in-law, Jean Laumann.He is survived by his loving family:wife, Debra Buesgens; children,Belinda (Jeremy) Rosckes ofCologne and Brian (Amanda) Bues-gens of Jordan; grandchildren,Natasha Rosckes (special friendChad Dobratz), Brennen Rosckes,Raegen Buesgens, Preston Bues-gens, Kainen Buesgens, JulyssaRosckes, Blake Buesgens; mother,Annie Buesgens; father-in-lawand mother-in-law, Gerald andRose Laumann; brother, sisters,brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law,and many nieces and nephews:Roger Buesgens (Bonita), DianneKopp (William), Nancy Lachermeier(William), Michael Buesgens(Crystal), Gerald Buesgens (Laurie),Rosanne Scott (Brian), RichardBuesgens, Germain T. Buesgens(Brenda); in-laws, Kathy Sether(Richard) Diane Vanderlinde(Henry), Judy Hernandez, andKristine Eveslage (Jeffery).

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Wold, Howard O.Age 80, ofWest St. Paul.Howiepassedpeacefullyafter a lifefilled withfaith, family,friends & mu-sic. Survivedby wife of 51

years, Gail (Zinschlag); children,Janelle (Todd) Rau & Kevin (Jodi)Wold; grandchildren, Aaron, Emily,Ella & Shiloh; brother, Paul (Linda)Wold; nephew, Andy; nieces, Julie &Mary. Preceded in death by parents,Hilly & Violet. Roosevelt HS ’54, U ofM ’60 Industrial Engineer, 32 yrs at3M in Distribution Mgmt, 23 yrs astudent at St. Thomas & St. Kate’s.Visitation 5-8 PM Friday, 1/13 atRoberts Funeral Home, 8108 BarbaraAve, IGH. Funeral Service 11 am Sat.1/14 with 10 AM visitation at St.Stephen Lutheran Church, 8400France Ave, Bloomington. Memori-als preferred.robertsfuneralandcremation.com

Oxley, Barbara L.age 65, of Champlin. Full noticeSunday.

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Johnson, Madeleine H.age 93, ofBloomington,MN. Born inSeattle, WAJune 20, 1923.Died January8, 2017.Preceded indeath by son,Jim Schafer.Madeleine

lived in Olympia, WA for 20 years. In1970, she married Maynard B. John-son on August 8, and moved toBloomington, MN. Maynard was in-strumental in developing Lakeville’sAirlake Industrial Park. Survived byher husband, Maynard Johnson; herdaughter, Joan Neslund (Art); andher two sons, Matt (Kate) and Tracy(Katie); daughter, Cheri Doyle(Kevin), and their three sons, BrantSkogrand (Patty), Ryan Doyle(Emily) and Sean Doyle (Annie); and7 great-grandchildren. Intermentwill be in April at Fort Snelling.White Funeral Home 952-894-5080

IN MEMORIAMWarn, Mavis I.

Mavis IleneWarn diedWed., Jan. 11,2017, her 96thbirthday atWalker Meth-odist HealthCenter inMpls.

Preceded in death by parents; hus-band, Clarence “Bud”; daughter,Carla Mae Lehtinen; and sisters,Carol Anderson and Lola Benson.

Survived by son, Robert C. Warn;daughter-in-law, Kathy; son-in-law,Gene Lehtinen; grandchildren, JeffLehtinen (Jenni), Lisa Lehtinen, andRobert E. Warn (Tracey); and great-grandsons, Nik Lehtinen and DylanWarn; and extended family.

Visitation: One hour prior to theservice at the church. Service: 11:00AM on Mon., Jan. 16, 2017, at theFederated Church in Fergus Falls.Interment: Oak Grove CemeteryOlson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls

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Tripanier, Robert A., Jr.age 69, of Bloomington, MN and Gil-bert, AZ, passed away peacefullysurrounded by family on December15th, 2016. Preceded in death byfather, Robert Sr.; twin brother,Francis; sister, Monique; brother,William. Survived by loving wife of45 years, Jorinda; daughters, Sarah(Aaron) Wuollet; Lisa (Nathan)Braunhut; grandsons, Ethan andMark Braunhut; mother, ShirleyTripanier; sister, Renee (Michael)Hedrix; and many other loving rela-tives and friends. He retired fromHennepin County after 38 years ofemployment. He was blessed tohave wonderful teammates fromfootball at Richfield High Schooland the University of Iowa. He gavehis time and devotion as a coachfor many youth sports teamsthrough the years. He considered ita privilege working with the girlsand treasured the friendships heformed with the parents. A Celebra-tion of Bob’s Life and luncheon willbe held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, Jan.14th, 2016 at the Richfield VFW Post,6715 Lake Shore Dr. S., Richfield,MN. Memorials preferred to theBloomington Athletic Association orthe Richfield Spartan Foundation.

Grampre, Glenn J.age 63, loving husband, brother,step-father, grandpa, uncle & friendto many passed away suddenly on1/9/17. Memorial service Thurs,1/19 Church of St. Michael, 22120Denmark Ave, Farmington, MN.Visitation at 10:00 am followed byMass at 11:00 am. Full notice tofollow on Sunday, 1/15.

Great Spirit

when we come

singing.

When we face

the sunset the

last song,

may it be,

without shame,

singing

“It is finished

in beauty.

It is finished

in beauty!”

—EVELYN EATON

Noonan, Maureen E.age 76 of Minneapolis. Born July 13,1940. Her suffering ended January10, 2017. She was a loving motherand grandmother with a greatsense of humor. Survived bychildren, Wayne Wolfe, CaronFattah, Catherine (Sai) Nair andAaron Noonan and many grandchil-dren and great-grandchildren. Fu-neral Service 1:30 p.m., Friday, Janu-ary 13th (TODAY) at Gill BrothersFuneral Home, 5801 Lyndale Ave. S.with visitation one hour prior toservice only. Interment LakewoodCemetery. In lieu of flowers memo-rials may be directed to the family.

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Mark Fox, of Minneapolis, is charged with two felony drug counts.


A Republican Party officer in Minneapolis for a state Sen-ate district has been charged with growing nearly two dozen marijuana plants in his Northeast home.

Mark S. Fox, 50, was charged this week in Hen-nepin County District Court with two felony drug counts in connection with police

seizing 23 mar-ijuana plants, nearly a pound of marijuana and severa l guns from his home in the 2700 block of

Pierce Street NE. Fox was arrested Monday

at his home, posted bond and was scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon.

Fox is currently the trea-surer for the Republican Par-ty’s Senate District 60, which includes northeast Minne-apolis, the University of Min-nesota and other neighboring

communities.The GOP chair for that dis-

trict, Kayla Fossen, said Fox’s post and others in the district are being contested late this month during its convention.

Fossen said she is making sure that everyone attending the convention will be aware of Fox’s legal troubles, should he seek to retain the post.

She said Fox has been “dis-tancing himself for the past year” from his duties with the GOP’s political operations in the Senate district.

“We’ve never had any problems” with Fox, she said in terms of him carrying

out his duties as treasurer. “He follows all the finance laws and regularly gives the updates that we require.”

A telephone message was left Thursday with Fox seek-ing his reaction to the allega-tions.

According to the charges:While Fox was not there,

police searched the home Monday and found the mari-juana growing operation in the basement. Officers also located several baggies of marijuana in an office.

Also in the office was a bolt-action rifle, a .357-cali-ber revolver, ammunition

and $4,700 in cash. A rifle was located in a bedroom. In the kitchen, officers found one-third of an ounce of hashish.

A biographical profile on the GOP’s Senate District 60 website says that Fox has been a community organizer in Northeast for more than a decade, along with volun-teering with the Audubon Neighborhood Association, the Northeast Citizen Patrol and the Northeast Lions.

He twice ran for City Council and lost, once in 2009 and again in 2013.

Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482

Pot plants found in home of Republican Party officer

Fox

watching the long bankruptcy process unfold.

“This is something tan-gible,” said survivor David Lind , of St. Paul, standing out-side the courtroom. “But I just want it to be done. It’s such a hard issue.”

The abuse survivors, as well as other creditors, includ-ing 180-some parishes and businesses vendors such as office supply firms and gro-cery stores, will vote on two competing plans.

The archdiocese’s plan includes a fund of at least $155 million — about $120 million from insurance payments — for the clergy sex abuse vic-tims who filed claims in bank-ruptcy court. It also includes a court order to prevent them from filing future lawsuits against the parishes and insur-ers involved.

A competing plan filed by the survivors’ committee calls for the archdiocese to increase its own contributions to the victims’ fund from the current $15 million to at least $80 million.

Committee attorneys also want to see insurance com-panies contributing more to the fund.

Having two competing plans sent out for a vote is highly unusual, said Mike Finnegan , an attorney rep-resenting the survivors. “In every other [similar] case, there’s been a consensual plan,” he said.

The competing plans are evidence of how contentious the bankruptcy proceedings have become, said Christo-pher Soper , a University of Minnesota law professor. Church-related bankruptcies typically involve legal battles,

but the parties somehow man-age to reach a consensus on a compensation plan, he said.

Four voting optionsIn February, a ballot con-

taining four options will be sent to creditors, said Rich-ard Anderson , bankruptcy attorney for the archdiocese. Creditors can vote a yes or no to either plan, or can reject both or accept both.

If they reject both, they’ll be asked if they have a preference for one or the other.

Votes should be tallied this spring. They will inform but not determine the final com-pensation plan, said archdio-cese attorney Charles Rog-ers . Even if one plan receives a majority vote, or none does, the judge has discretion on how to proceed, said Soper.

The parties will continue negotiating until an agree-ment is reached.

“Our goal is to have it decided by June,” Rogers said.

F i n n e ga n , h oweve r, declined to lay out a time frame. “Our goal is to get a

fair resolution for survivors as quickly as possible,” he said.

An abuse survivor in the courtroom called the impend-ing vote “a positive step.” But she was not in a hurry for a plan to be approved. She said she just wanted it to be “a just resolution.”

“Yes, it’s been two years [in bankruptcy court],” said the woman, who didn’t want her name revealed. “But it’s been 34 years for us dealing with this. It’s important it’s done right.”

The archdiocese declared bankruptcy in January 2015 , following an avalanche of clergy child sex abuse law-suits. Early on, attorneys pre-dicted a relatively smooth process. But two years later, the two sides still can’t agree on the archdiocese’s assets available for creditors and the extent of the contributions from parishes and insurers.

One issue is that diocesan bankruptcies — unlike most commercial bankruptcies — are typically about something more than money, said Jona-

than Lipson , a law professor at Temple University in Phila-delphia. They are very emo-tional issues. The dioceses worry about significantly impairing their religious mis-sion if they give up too much, he said. And clergy abuse vic-tims want a settlement that is just and fair for them. All of that is difficult to monetize, he said.

Rogers attributed part of the two-year process to the “multitude of parties and com-plexities of claims.” Finnegan, meanwhile, also put blame on the “unreasonable positions” of the archdiocese insurance companies that underwrote abuse coverage.

“I think the process, while to an outsider it may seem slow and prolonged, is simi-lar to the pace of the proceed-ings we’ve seen in other dio-cese reorganization,” he said. “ ... Now it’s time to turn our attention to the plans ... and to try to reach a consensual resolution.”

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St. Paul calls deal “generous,” but some vow to continue to trial.

By RANDY FURST Randy. [email protected]

A day after riot charges were dismissed against 38 protesters arrested in St. Paul for blockad-ing Interstate 94 last July, many of them vowed Thursday to reject a proposed plea agree-ment and take the remaining misdemeanor charges to trial.

The mood was ebullient as about 70 defendants jammed into a small courtroom on the 16th floor of the Ramsey County Courthouse, representing the contingent arrested during

demonstrations on the freeway and in front of the governor’s residence in the wake of Phi-lando Castile’s shooting death by a St. Anthony police officer. A decision issued late Wednes-day by Ramsey County District Judge G. Tony Atwal threw out the gross misdemeanor third-degree riot charges, saying that they did not hold up because some of those charged were merely present at a protest where others were throwing rocks or bottles.

“We were not involved in any of that conduct nor do we support it,” said Jane Conrad, 55, of Richmond, Minn. “Our values are that of Dr. Martin Luther King.”

Rachel Mueller, 27, of Min-

neapolis, sat outside the court-room waiting for the hearing to begin. She said that more than 20 of the I-94 protesters plan to go to trial rather than accept plea agreements for two remaining misdemeanor charges, of being a public nui-sance and participating in an unlawful assembly.

“It’s a great win for us,” Mueller said of Wednesday’s ruling. “To get [St. Anthony Police] Officer Jeronimo Yanez charged and to have the riot charges dropped is huge. It shows protesting worked.”

During the night of July 9, about 300 protesters entered the freeway at Lexington Avenue and marched east-ward, blocking traffic in both

directions. Some threw rocks, cement chunks and other items at law enforcement.

Scores of police officers in riot gear used smoke bombs, and eventually tear gas and pepper spray, to disperse the crowd. Police closed the freeway for nearly five hours between downtown St. Paul and Hwy. 280.

Authorities said at least 16 officers were injured. Forty-six people were charged with third-degree riot, along with misdemeanor public nuisance and unlawful assembly.

Deputy City Attorney Laura Pietan said the plea deal offered to protesters involves admit-ting to a petty misdemeanor with no jail time and fines.

“I think across the board the city is being very reasonable and generous,” she said.

Jordan Kushner, one of sev-eral attorneys for the demon-strators, said that plea offers were “somewhat generous” in the arrests at the gover-nor’s residence — but only if the demonstrators were guilty.

“But everyone I’ve spoken to is adamant that they were wrongfully arrested,” he said, because they were not given a chance to leave.

Some demonstrators are pleading guilty, however. Two involved in the I-94 protest pleaded guilty through their attorneys Thursday, bring-ing to eight the number who have pleaded in the freeway

incident. They had 30-day jail sentences stayed, accepted $50 fines, and agreed to pay $86 in court costs. Six others had already pleaded guilty.

Louis B. Hunter of St. Louis Park was the only per-son charged with a felony, for allegedly throwing rocks and construction debris at police. Hunter was charged with two counts of second-degree riot armed with a dangerous weapon. Officers arrested Hunter after seeing him throw rocks and debris at officers, according to the criminal complaint. Hunter has denied throwing any objects.

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Riot charges dropped, but Castile protesters reject plea

Mixture of heroin and fentanyl proved fatal.


A St. Paul drug dealer and repeat felon has been charged with murder after one of his customers overdosed on a mixture that included heroin and fentanyl.

Garyegus L. Cooper , 38, was charged Wednesday in Hen-nepin County District Court with third-degree murder in connection with the death of a 33-year-old man in his Orono home. Cooper was charged by warrant and has yet to be arrested.

The medical examiner’s office on Thursday identified the victim as David Andrew

Mack-Bohnhoff . An autopsy determined that Mack-Bohnhoff died from ingesting a mixture of fentanyl and alco-hol, with recent heroin use as a contributing factor.

According to the complaint:A family member discov-

ered Mack-Bohnhoff on June 25 on the floor in his bedroom and called the Sheriff ’s Office. Authorities declared him dead

at the scene and noted a recent puncture wound on his right arm.

Near the body were a lighter, a spoon holding illicit drugs, and needles. Also near Mack-Bohnhoff was a plas-tic baggie with heroin inside. Testing on the baggie turned up DNA matching Cooper’s, which was on file in the law enforcement database.

Investigators also located Cooper’s number on Mack-Bohnhoff ’s cellphone.

Cooper’s criminal history in Minnesota reaches back to when he was 16 years old and was convicted of possessing crack cocaine. He also has two convictions on his record for felony assault.

Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482

Dealer charged with murder after man overdoses in Orono home

Father of children was charged with theft, neglect.

By TIM HARLOW [email protected]

Charges were filed Thurs-day after a Ramsey officer pulled over a minivan carry-ing a woman in labor and seven children — some with packing tape over their mouths.

The officer also found two other adults inside the mini-van, which was stolen in Mis-souri, and a gun under the seat.

Deszion Marquese Wraggs, 26, who was identified as the father of the children, was charged with felony auto theft and child neglect, a gross misdemeanor, according to a criminal complaint in Anoka County District Court.

On Thursday the investi-gation continued into what Ramsey Police Chief Jeff Kat-ers described as a “bizarre” case. Besides the Ramsey Police Department, Anoka County Child Protection is also investigating .

It unfolded just after mid-night when the officer spot-ted the minivan swerving and making illegal turns in the area of Xkimo Street and St. Francis Boulevard NW. A strong odor of burned mari-juana was coming from the vehicle when the officer spoke with the female driver, who was going into labor. The woman, who is believed to be the mother of the seven chil-dren, was taken to a hospital, Katers said.

Wraggs was in the passenger seat while the children slept in the back. Some of the children had clear packing tape over their mouths, but told officers they were just playing with the tape, the complaint said. Five of the children are under age 5. The others are 6 and 9.

The children were exam-ined by paramedics at the scene, deemed to be fine and released to other family mem-bers, Katers said.

Officers found a .40 caliber handgun under the second row of seats and near the feet of some of the children. Wraggs admitted that it was his gun and that he did not have a per-mit to carry a firearm.

Wraggs also told officers that he had rented the mini-van about a month ago but believed that he didn’t have any money left on the credit card he used to rent the vehi-cle, the complaint said.

A third adult in the minivan was initially detained. It was not immediately clear if he would be charged.

Tim Harlow • 612-673-7768

Officer finds 7 kids, gun, woman in labor in van

federal government over-reach. But a series of federal warnings in recent years, and the prospect of forcing major headaches on Minnesota trav-elers, has pushed lawmakers back toward compliance.

Still, passage of the law is far from certain given a galva-nized opposition comprising libertarian-leaning Republi-cans and DFLers concerned about an immigration mea-sure in the bill.

“I have serious concerns regarding Real ID, and I’m opposed to implementation,” said Rep. Abigail Whelan, R-Ramsey, during a Wednes-day committee hearing. She said she is concerned with the power it would cede to the U.S. Department of Home-

land Security.In their opposition, DFL

lawmakers are pointing to a provision that would codify in law that the Department of Public Safety, which issues licenses, would be restricted from granting IDs to immi-grants in the country illegally. The department is prevented from doing so now, but only by administrative rule, not by law.

Many DFLers and some Republicans, including Rep. Rod Hamilton, R-Mountain Lake, want Minnesota to issue driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status, and a pro-hibition in law would be more difficult to overcome than the current administrative rule, said Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis.

“What we want to do is enhance the quality of life for everyone by keeping our streets safer by making sure everyone driving has a driv-er’s license and insurance,” Hornstein said.

He said 14 other states have passed laws making it pos-sible for such immigrants to obtain a driver’s license.

Smith said the immigra-tion provision will assist the Department of Public Safety with implementation, although cracking down on illegal immigration has also been a long-standing goal of Republicans.

The administration of DFL Gov. Mark Dayton released a statement saying codifying legal immigration status is unnecessary.

Sen. Warren Limmer, R-Maple Grove, was instru-mental in the 2009 law pro-hibiting Minnesota from com-plying with the federal law. He now chairs the Senate Judi-

ciary Committee, where he said he would give the House bill a hearing, even though he remains staunchly opposed.

“It’s sad the federal govern-ment is using a club to force states into submission,” Lim-mer said.

He ran down a litany of objections: vesting too much power in the hands of the Department of Homeland Security, which he said could stiffen the law still more in the future without congressional approval; the potential misuse of data such as gun purchase history; and the potential for snooping by government workers in other states, in vio-lation of Minnesota’s current privacy laws.

Asked when he would give the bill a hearing in the com-mittee he chairs, Limmer said he was in no rush and joked about his House colleagues: “Young men in a hurry.”

J. Patrick Coolican • 651-925-5042

Real ID law again faces bipartisan oppositionø REAL ID from B1

One person died when fire broke out Thursday morning at a Mound apart-ment building, according to the Minnesota State Fire Marshal’s Office.

The victim, whose name has not been released, was badly burned and uncon-scious when rescue work-ers arrived at Grandview Terrace Apartments about 8:30 a.m. She died at the scene, according to live police scanners transmis-sions.

Several other residents were displaced from the building in the 5600 block of Grandview Blvd .

Officials went door to door to check on other res-idents and get them out of the building.

A Metro Transit bus was called to the scene to provide shelter for 30 to 40 people. The Red Cross and Salvation Army were also called in.

The death was the state’s first fire fatality of 2017. Last year there were 36, the second-lowest number since the fire marshal began compiling those statistics in 1970. The lowest was 35 in 2009 and the highest was 57 in 2015.

TIM HARLOW

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Apartment fire leaves one dead


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“Numb and Number: The Sequel.” Welcome to the coldest morning since Dec. 18, 2016, when the official low at MSP was a crisp 20 below. We’re waking up to 10-15 below in the close-in suburbs, where the urban heat island is taking some edge off the burn.

Winds are nearly calm, so the wind chill won’t be much colder than the air temp. Even so, unprotected skin can be frostbitten within 10 minutes. At 40 below, exposed skin freezes within 1 minute; at 60 below (hello Tower, Minn.!) exposed skin can freeze within seconds. When it’s that cold, your breath turns to ice crystals that fall to the ground. Really.

The metro area has picked up 23 inches of snow this win-ter; a whopping 4 inches on the ground. A far cry from Janu-ary 1982, when snow lovers were delirious with 38 inches to report. Get out and play in that new powder this weekend. We thaw out by Monday, when a light mix arrives. ECMWF guidance hints at 40 late next week; more rain by the week-end of Jan. 21-22.

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the Sabris to complain pub-licly, but they come to him regularly with grievances, and they need another option.

Basim Sabri, a Palestinian by birth , said Thursday that many of his tenants are like extended family to him, that he has helped Somali immi-grants launch thriving busi-nesses, and that while he, like everyone, makes mistakes, he rejects the notion that he or his family are abusing tenants.

“You don’t have to bring someone down in order to come up with a good idea for a new mall,” Sabri said of Warsame’s proposal. “They’ve got my blessing. I could even maybe invest with them.”

A new mallWarsame blames Sabri for

staining the reputation of the Somali community by hold-ing East African businesspeo-ple “hostage” in substandard properties.

The city has cited the 24 Mall for regulatory viola-tions 182 times since January 2010, rejected applications to expand the 24 Mall twice in the past three years, and has forced the building’s manager, Omar Sabri , to install more restrooms in recent months.

“People come to these malls, white people, they visit the malls and they think, ‘oh, this is disgusting,’ ” Warsame said, adding that it leads to assumptions about Somali culture. “It’s not the culture. It’s because this guy doesn’t invest in hygiene and doesn’t fix the bathrooms and makes every little corner into a stall that he can rent for $1,000.”

But Omar Sabri said his ten-ants don’t want to leave.

“They’re smart enough to know when they’re being taken advantage of,” he said. “A lot of my tenants have been very successful.”

For Warsame, the plight of Somali merchants in south Minneapolis is unfinished business, and he doesn’t want to end his first term without “having a go at it.”

Aside from bearing down on Sabri Properties for regula-tory violations, Warsame said the only true remedy is a large Somali-owned mall. Details so far are scant, but he believes the city of Minneapolis can help with land, design and technical support, and Somali businesses should be able to finance the project.

“The community’s entre-preneurial. We have enough resources to build it,” Wars-ame said.

He doesn’t know where — maybe on land off Hiawatha Avenue in south Minneapolis, maybe in north Minneapo-lis — but he said plans are in motion.

History with the cityFor the Sabri family, battles

with the city and elected offi-cials are nothing new.

Basim Sabri, the uncle of Omar Sabri, went to federal prison for a year and a half for bribing then-Council Mem-ber Brian Herron in 2001 in exchange for help on a devel-opment deal. In 2012, Sabri barred former Sixth Ward Council Member Robert Lilli-gren from his buildings when tension broke out between the two men.

Lilligren, who was defeated by Warsame in 2013, said the neighborhood has mostly been welcoming of the Somali pres-

ence, but neighbors were con-cerned about the mall’s man-agement and effect on the community. He said the Sabris were skilled at painting their critics as anti-Somali.

“The Sabris would lever-age any friction and explode it into this sense of white versus black and longtime resident versus new arrival,” Lilligren said. “It was really frustrating.”

Warsame believes now is the time to break that political dynamic. As a Somali-Amer-ican himself, he cannot be accused of being anti-Somali, and he said a growing num-ber of Somali homeowners in Phillips share the concerns of white homeowners who’ve been complaining about the 24 Mall for more than a decade.

Basim Sabri believes a sig-nificant amount of the back-lash against his malls has been anti-immigrant sentiment.

“I don’t use the race card, but believe it or not there are people who are against Somali Muslim Americans,” Sabri said.

And he said Somali tenants are hard on his properties. Managing these properties, with their winding corridors and stores packed with carpets and fabric and dresses, is not easy, he said.

Several tenants of the 24 Mall said Thursday they are scared to criticize the Sabris for fear of getting kicked out, but they complained the bath-room setup was intolerable for years before the city forced the owners to build new ones. Others were more supportive of the Sabris. One shop owner said the Sabris are honest and allow people to pay rent on a flexible schedule if business is slow.

Basim Sabri said his busi-ness isn’t perfect, but insisted his relationship with tenants is strong. “I could do better, and my organization could do bet-ter, but my heart’s in the right place,” Sabri said.

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