THE PLAIN DEALER OHIO'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER CLEVELAND, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1982 4 McCarthy tied to heroin dealer. Walt Bogdanich and Christopher Jensen COPYRIGHT 1982, THE PLAIN DEALER New York Yankees tax lawyer and part owner Daniel R. McCarthy of Cleveland joined a convicted heroin dealer in establishing a Buffalo dental clinic accused of having direct links to organized crime. A Plain Dealer investigation found that the Buffalo clinic is part of a three-state network of dental clinics closely tied to reputed Cleveland underworld figures. The clinics offer pre-paid dental plans to labor unions.
State Ohio pays heavily for past sins Ohio, part of the industrial heartland that helped make America great, is on a slide. It is part of an entire region in deep economic trouble. But Ohio's problems are more acute. They stem from more than the recession, or, as some call it, the depression. The problems are more complicated than the agonies of the auto industry, a major employer of Ohio workers.
And the problems go far beyond past federal policies that drained more dollars from Ohio than were returned. In Cuyahoga County, one in 10 breadwinners is unemployed. In some Ohio counties, the number is one in five. The lost incomes translate into la projected $1 billion state deficit in the next 17 months. That is a giant shortfall in a state considered for years to provide minimal services, leading to deteriorated roads and bridges and, perhaps more important, a major disincentive for companies to relocate here.
Thousands of families are living week-to-week on meager supplies of groceries supplied by charities. Many are forced to accept an occasional hot meal from volunteer organizations, bringing back Clinics in two of the states, New Jersey and New York, have corporate histories marked either by murder, kickbacks, forged checks, or questionable loans, according to investigative commissions in the two states. Organized crime's infiltration of dental care plans has caused serious concern in the dental profession, prompting the American Dental Association recently to call for increased government regulation of such plans. The Buffalo dental clinic, according to 1975 Ohio records, was financed by Daniel R. McCarthy, former special after police found her at the headquarters master for Cleveland school desegrega- of an alleged numbers ring, police said.
tion, and Rena Montana, wife of convicted The clinic 1980 Cleveland drug dealer John (Curly) gained notoriety in Montana. when the body of reputed Mafia member Authorities say John Montana helped Carl D. Rizzo, a clinic "consultant," was set up the clinic. Montana identified found in the trunk of a car belonging to in sworn testimony as an organized crime the clinic's chief dentist, Jesse D. figure and wife Rena own the building Hyman.
in which the clinic. now operates, New McCarthy, through his involvement York land records show. with the clinic, may have violated Montana, of 29576 Hidden Valley professional baseball policy which forbids Orange, has been convicted of possessing players and owners to associate with and conspiring to distribute heroin. Rena organized crime figures. Montana was arrested and fined in 1956 "Baseball was built on integrity," said of depression Robert A.
Wirz, director of information for the baseball commissioner's office. "Any activities or people who would cause any rise in concern that is something we don't want." McCarthy, a former Internal Revenue Service employe, apparently sold his share of the dental clinic about 1977. Late in 1976 the Justice Department in Buffalo began investigating the clinic's business dealings with Laborers Local 210. The clinic operates under the name of Jesse Hyman, D.D.S., P.C. Continued on Page 22-A Woman pledges $150,000 for heart MILWAUKEE (AP) A Bermuda ANDERSEN Jobless people must endure long, boring hours waiting to be helped at the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services office, 3150 Chester because of the crush of people thrown out of work here.
memories to some of Depressionera soup kitchens. Social programs that provide subsistence living are threatened by President Reagan's budget slicers. "The squeeze is on for all Tanks leveling rebel Hama Animal home spurs dogfight in Scioto By W. C. Miller STAFF WRITER PORTSMOUTH It's hard to tell who is making more noise in this southern Ohio city these days the dogs and cats or the people who take care of the animals.
There is nothing like money to get a good dispute going, and money is at the root of the dispute in recent months involving the Scioto County Humane Society. The 250-member group, which operated for years on a shoestring budget, came into a fortune in recent years when two animalloving benefactors left a total $600,000 from their estates. The NEW YORK TIMES DAMASCUS Syrian tanks are methodically leveling vast areas of Hama, the nation's fifth largest city, as they continue to battle rebels led by Muslim fundamentalists, according to residents who have managed to escape the besieged city. The government has repeatedly claimed that Hama had been pacified. Thousands of people no one can accurately estimate how many are believed by diplomats here to have been killed or wounded in the bloody fighting that has now stretched on for three weeks.
Tanks, backed by artillery and as many as 12,000 soldiers, Ba'ath party militiamen and plainclothes intelligence officers, have reduced money was to go for Portsmouth's first animal shelter. That was good news for' the society and even better news for the dogs, cats and geese of Portsmouth. For years, these stray animals were housed in homes and garages by volunteers. Now the pets would have their own little hotel. Sounds great, right? Wrong.
People have been barking over the bucks ever since. First, they argued over the shelter's cost. The facility opened last month, and critics are grumContinued on Page 11-A 4 a heart transplant for a Milwaukee woman turned down by Medicaid says a voice told her, "Go help this girl." Maria Benn, who owns a clothing store. in Hamilton, Bermuda, said she learned of Janice Terry's plight while watching a television news report during a vacation in Dallas. On Friday, Benn flew to Milwaukee and said she wanted 'to finance the $150,000 heart transplant operation for the 30-yearold Milwaukee woman.
Terry's application for Medicaid assistance for the operation was rejected last week. Medicaid refuses to pay for what it considers experimental and an 11-member committee of physicians ruled that heart transplant surgery should be considered an experimental procedure. Her physician said Terry, a victim of heart disease being treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center, has little chance of a long life without the, operation. Terry, a single, unemployed mother of two, has no relatives in the area and no private health of us," said Maj. S.
Morris Richardson, 60, inner-city coordinator for the Salvation Army here. "We're at the point where people are losing homes and furniture. It's down to 'What are we going to eat for the next much of the ancient quarter of the city to rubble, according to accounts dribbling out. One young man smuggled out of the city Tuesday said the stench of rotting corpses hangs over the city, with bodies buried under collapsed buildings and the dead and wounded lying unattended in the streets because of the heavy fighting. Sunday Page 4 SUMMARIES INDEX WEEK IN REVIEW WEATHER (cloudy, cold) CHARMING VICTORIAN LAKEFRONT TAGE ON LAKE CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK.
Call Gates Mills, 423-0544. Advt. Ohio's malaise 600,000 jobless people and another million on some kind of federal or state assistance program could be helped by an improvement in the national economy. Helped, but not cured. Many residents have not been out of their houses for more than two weeks because the soldiers are shooting at anything that moves, he said.
The government has declined to give any details of the fighting. Minister of Information Ahmed Iskander Ahmed has described the reports circulating among diplomats as the "stuff of dreams." Happy days for many are a long way off. And there are no quick fixes. The many problems of Ohio have been identified and discussed for years: Continued on Page 32-A The fighting is the largest uprising in the 12-year rule of President Hafez Assad, but diplomats here believe the president, backed by his brother, Rifaat, still commands a' security apparatus capable of keeping control of the country. Nevertheless, these diplomats say the regime appears faced with Continued on Page 11-A White House delay on budget NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON The White House, conceding that President Reagan lacks the votes in Congress to pass his 1983 budget, has decided to try to prolong the budget debate into the fall, if necessary, to reduce the pressure on Reagan to alter his economic proposals.
This new strategy of delay has been devised, White House officials admit, because the decline in the economy has robbed Reagan of his ability to bulldoze his program through Congress as he did last year. insurance. Benn is known in Bermuda for charitable work, such as the annual party she holds for poor children. "I had some money I wasn't using," Benn said Friday. "I was going to buy this house (in Dallas).
It was a quarter of a million. But I didn't get it. So I decided I might as well go to Milwaukee. This voice just told me, 'Go help this Benn reluctantly told of 'her meeting with Terry. "Hello, Janice," Benn said she greeted Terry.
"I saw you on television. You were hugging up your little boy. I'm here to pay your doctor bill." Continued on Page 11-A attempts vote These officials say the administration is bracing for losses of Republican seats in the 1982 congressional elections and has abandoned altogether its hopes of winning control of the House this year because of the recession. "If we don't see an upturn, anything less than a 38-seat loss should be seen as a major victory for us," said a White House official closely involved in planning Reagan's political strategy. These points reflect the somber INTERCITY RADIATORS TODAY mood that settled over the Reagan team after the bipartisan congressional revolt against the' president's budget.
Several Reagan confirm that this mood of pessimism and caution has been deepened because private White House polls show declining public support for Reagan's policies. The White House strategy of delay contrasts sharply with its 1981 tactics. A year ago, Reagan used his personal popularity to muscle both his budget and his tax-cut legislation through ConContinued on Page 11-A 4 a.
