Bulletin Daily Paper 10/22/10

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Honesty, taxes are priorities for local voters By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

ELECTION • Who are Central Oregon voters? By the numbers, Page A4 • Obama speech shifts from hope during Northwest tour, Page A5 • Ballot returns, and more local election information, Page C1

Leslie Houston, of Bend, will vote. But she’s sick of false promises, the bad economy and school districts without adequate funding. So, the 43-year-old part-time student, small-business owner, mother of three and dental assistant, is taking her time choosing who will receive her vote. She’s a registered Republican, but she’s

not concerned about the party line. Instead, it’s who can ensure her children receive a quality public school education and who can help her family keep its construction business from going under. “What (politicians) promise to do never comes to fruition — funding for schools, the economy — I haven’t seen it get better,” Houston said. “I’m really disappointed.” In downtown Bend on Thurs-

day afternoon, many locals said they have yet to cast their votes. Many have been too busy. But like Houston, they said, they plan to give their input on the way the state and city are run before Nov. 2. Many said they will vote for the candidates they believe stick to their word once in office. Lowering taxes, improving the economy and education, and the environment were mentioned the most. See Voters / A4

Couple to be arraigned Nov. 8 for fraud, conspiracy, laundering

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Training almost over, then on to Iraq

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

The Bend couple who for nearly two years have been the subject of FBI and IRS investigations into their real estate dealings in Oregon and Indiana were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in U.S. District Court in Eugene on 21 counts of crimes that include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and false statement to a financial institution. The indictment alleges that between January 2004 and January 2009, Kevin and Tami Sawyer used investor money to pay for personal property. “Rather than investing the money as promised, Tamara Sawyer and Kevin Sawyer used investor money to fund their other companies and ventures and to pay personal expenses, including cars, credit cards and the construction of their vacation home in Mexico,” the indictment states. “Based on defendants’ conduct, investors lost more than $4.4 million.” The Sawyers invested heavily in Central Oregon real estate, and according to the indictment, the conspiracy to defraud investors started in about January 2004. All told, Tami and Kevin Sawyer were involved, as a couple or separately, in at least 10 companies, took out millions of dollars in mortgages and loans from more than a dozen banks, and bought and sold dozens of properties around Deschutes County. Reached at home, Tami Sawyer did not comment on the indictments. Kevin Sawyer did not return a message left on his cell phone; the pair’s criminal defense attorneys, Marc Blackman and Shaun McCrea, did not return calls to their offices. See Sawyers / A5

By Erin Golden The Bulletin

The U.S. combat mission in Iraq may officially be over, but local Oregon Army National Guard soldiers gearing up for an upcoming deployment are still preparing for the possibility of serious action. About 500 Oregon troops who serve with the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade — including nearly 100 soldiers from Central Oregon — are halfway through two months of intensive training at Camp Shelby, nearHattiesburg, Miss. It’s the final “When you’re step in a process began more doing something that than a year ago, like this, you’ve when the U.S. Department of got to be able Defense issued to trust the guy a mobilization alert for the Boior gal that’s on se-based 116th your left and Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, right.” which includes — Lt. Col. Phil a total of 2,700 Appleton, 3rd soldiers from Oregon, Idaho and Battalion, 116th Montana. Cavalry Brigade Local troops learned in April that they’d be part of a 13-month deployment to Iraq, where their primary duty will be providing security for convoys of military vehicles. Since then, they’ve been getting to know the weapons, vehicles and people that they’ll be spending time with in the Middle East. Lt. Col. Phil Appleton, the battalion commander, said the final two months of preparations are as much about getting the soldiers in the right mind-set as they are making sure they’re comfortable in realistic, hands-on training scenarios. See Guard / A4

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By David Porter and Michael Rubinkam The Associated Press

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Oregon National Guard Pvt. First Class Kyle Herbst, of Bend, takes aim from around a building while fellow Pvt. Jordan Lemire, of Astoria, gets into a firing position during a recent training exercise at Camp Shelby, Miss. Herbst and Lemire serve with the Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, which will deploy to Iraq later this year.

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Tami and Kevin Sawyer

Investigated, then indicted Former Bend Police Capt. Kevin Sawyer and his wife Tami Sawyer were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on 21 counts of money laundering, wire and bank fraud, conspiracy and false statement to a financial institution. The indictments come nearly two years after the FBI began investigating the couple and their real estate dealings. They will be arraigned Nov. 8 in federal court in Eugene.

INDICTMENT COUNTS • Count 1: Conspiracy to commit wire fraud • Counts 2 through 10: Wire fraud • Count 11: Bank fraud • Count 12: False statement to financial institution • Counts 13 through 15: Wire fraud • Counts 16 through 21: Money laundering

Inside: A timeline • Examining the two-year investigation into Tami and Kevin Sawyer’s troubles, Page A5

Has the U.S. lost its will to build?

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Sawyers indicted: 21 counts

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Vol. 107, No. 295, 72 pages, 7 sections

NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey’s governor wants to kill a $9 billion-plus train tunnel to New York because of runaway costs. Hawaii’s outgoing governor, 6,000 miles away, is having second thoughts about a proposed $5.5 billion rail line in Honolulu. In many of the 48 states in between, infrastructure projects are languishing on the drawing

board, awaiting the right mix of creative financing, political armtwisting and timing to move forward. And a struggling economy and a surge of political candidates opposed to big spending could make it a long wait. Has the nation that built the Hoover Dam, brought electricity to the rural South and engineered the interstate highway system lost its appetite for big public works projects? See Projects / A4

NASA locates icy oasis on the moon

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investigator of NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite — or LCROSS, for short — which made the observations as it, by design, slammed into the moon a year ago. “This is wetter than some places on Earth.” The Sahara sands are 2 percent to 5 percent water, and the water is tightly bound to the minerals, Colaprete said. See Moon / A4

NPR: News analyst Juan Williams fired for comments regarding Muslims, Page A3

By Kenneth Chang New York Times News Service

The moon, at least at the bottom of a deep, dark cold crater near its south pole, seems to be wetter than the Sahara, scientists reported Thursday. In lunar terms, that is an oasis, surprisingly drenched for a place that had long been thought by many planetary scientists to be utterly dry. If astronauts were to visit this

crater, they might be able to melt 10 to 13 gallons of water out of eight wheelbarrows worth of soil. The water, if purified, could be used for drinking or broken apart into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen would be air for breathing and with the hydrogen could be used as rocket fuel to get home or travel farther out to asteroids or Mars. “That is a very valuable resource,” said Anthony Colaprete, principal


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