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4AThe Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 29, 1983
Crime victims may be able to claim state compensation
By THAD OGBURN
Staff Writer
. People who are robbed, assaulted or injured in a
violent crime after July 1, 1984, may receive money
from the state thanks to a new victim's compensation
program.
"Everybody has started seeing that we have to do
something for crime victims," said Jim Scarcella,
director of the Victim and Justice Services Division
of the N.C. Department of Crime Control and
Public Safety.
Scarcella said he and his staff hope to begin basic
planning for the victim's compensation commission
in October. If things go as planned, the commission
will be in operation on Julv 1. 1984.
The commission will pay up to $20,000 to victims
of robbery oi violent crime who meet the re
quirements for compensation. Families of murder
victims can also claim up to $2,000 for burial ex
penses if they meet certain qualifications. The re
quirements and rules concerning compensation have
not been fully decided.
North Carolina already has a rape assistance pro
gram that provides medical assistance of up to $500
to rape victims. The program, which has been
operating for three years, was the first form of vic
tim's compensation in North Carolina. .
Planners have estimated that the victim's compen
sation program will cost $1 million, Scarcella said.
The program will be financed by a state appropria
tion, which has yet to be approved.
"There has been a bill establishing the victim's
compensation program, but we don't have any
money for it right now," Scarcella said.
Currently, there are 38 states which have some
form of victim's compensation. Each state has its
own program guidelines.
"In some states there is not enough public infor
mation about the victim-oriented programs. We want
to plan well and ensure that we have enough infor
mation," Scarcella said. "We also don't want victims
to have to wait an eternity for compensation, like
they do in some states."
Oklahoma has a highly successful victim's com
pensation program. Since its inception in October
1981, the program has given $341,406 to people who
have received bodily injury or have experienced a
relative's death as a result of a crime.
"The beauty of our program is that it doesn't af
fect tax payers," said Susan Damron, an ad
ministrative assistant at the Oklahoma Crime
Victim's Compensation Board. "The criminals are
actually providing funding for the victims."
Anyone who commits a misdemeanor in Okla
homa, excluding traffic violations, must pay $5 to
the compensation board. A person convicted of a
non-violent felony must pay $20, and someone con
victed of a violent felony must pay between $25 and
$10,000. The victim's compensation fine is ad
ministered separately from any other fines or sentences.
Lobbyists spent more than $800,000on 1983 General Assembly
The Associated Press
RALEIGH Lobbyists spent at least
$818,565 to influence lawmakers during
the 1983 General Assembly, according to
expense reports filed by the Aug. 22 re
porting deadline.
But those reports reflect only a fraction
of the cost of lobbying because most of the
513 registered lobbyists did not include
their salaries in their reports.
One of the most active lobbies in 1983
was the alcoholic beverage industry, which
hired 16 lobbyists and spent at least
$39,000 to influence legislation.
The major act of the session was Gov.
Jim Hunt's Safe Roads Act, which raised
the drinking age for beer and wine from 18
to 19 effective Oct. 1. Beer and wine com
panies tried to block the increase.
The North Carolina Beer Wholesalers
Association spent $8,715 for a legislative
reception at a Raleigh hotel. It included
entertainment by the Little German Band
and more than $200 worth of beer and $97
worth of wine.
The Miller Brewing Co. hosted a dinner
for the legislators at a cost of $2,539.
Meanwhile, Minnesota Mining &
Manufacturing Co. wanted lawmakers to
adopt a bill requiring cars and light trucks
to have front and rear reflectorized license
tags.
The measure would have raised the cost
of tags from $16 to $20. The company
would have profited from the law because
it had won all contracts for reflectorized
license plates in other states in recent years.
The company hired former U.S. Sen.
Robert B. Morgan, D-N.C, and a Raleigh
law firm to lobby for it. And lobbyist
Richard W. Brown of St. Paul, Minn.,
reported spending $1,016 entertaining
lawmakers from May through July.
The 18 lobbyists for the financial in
dustry reported spending at least $27,911.
The industry achieved several goals, in
cluding a law allowing banks to charge
credit card holders up to $20 a year.
The 20 lobbyists for utilities reported
spending at least $68,717, although few
major issues directly affecting their in
dustries were considered.
The auto industry's 13 lobbyists report
ed spending at least $23,852. Among their
goals was a law to protect the territories of
franchised dealers, which, was passed.
The four trucking lobbyists and six rail
road lobbyists together spent at least
$21,355 on opposite sides of legislation to
increase the legal weight limit for trucks.
Among the lobbyists in the Legislature
were 24 former lawmakers, according to
records filed in the N.C. Secretary of
State's office.
The former legislators were able to use
their contacts and their knowledge of how
the General Assembly works to represent
89 clients.
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Wrongdoing
no stranger to
N.C. politics
By KYLE MARSHALL
Staff Writer
One would think it could only happen in
an urbanized, Northeastern state.
Charges of vote-buying and election ir
regularities making headlines. High of
ficials in state government indicted on
various charges. . Reports of judges,
sheriffs and bureaucrats involved in ques
tionable practices.
It doesn't sound like it could happen in
North Carolina, where there has long been
a reputation for good government. But for
the past year there have been enough alle
gations of public corruption in North
Carolina to make outsiders as well as N.C.
political experts question the state's good
reputation.
Consider the following:
Since the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion's undercover operation in South
eastern North Carolina code-named
ColCor for Columbus County corruption
became public in July 1982, about 40
people have been indicted. Not only have
there been indictments, 29 government of
ficials and citizens have been convicted or
have pleaded guilty.
Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green was indicted
June 21 by a Wake County grand jury on
four counts of bribery and one count of
conspiracy to commit bribery. He now
awaits trial.
In Clay and Alexander counties,
possible election fraud has led to more
than a dozen indictments and, so far, five
convictions or guilty pleas.
Another FBI probe resulted in 1 1 in
dictments against Robeson County of
ficials and residents connected with that
county's CETA program. The indictments
came in late July, and the defendants
await trial.
The N.C. Judicial Standards Com
mission has recommended that N.C.
Superior Court Judge Charles Kivett of
Greensboro be removed from office be
cause of misconduct. Based on evidence
presented at a commission hearing, Kivett
has been accused of having sexual relations
with a juror and with the mother of a
defendant.
Political analysts agree publicity on
N.C. public corruption is at an all-time
high. But simply because there's more
known about it does not mean more cor
ruption is taking place.
Take the recent case of state Sen. R.C.
Soles, D-Columbus. He was indicted on
federal extortion charges, but was found
innocent Aug. 9. The results of the Soles
case, however, has been the exception
rather , than the.rule as prosecutors Jiave j
. been successful in getting guilty pleas or
ityerdictsiii 5"xvf srit to't wubua bii-. n
"I don't know if there's more corrup
tion in the state than there has been over
the past 10 to 20 years," John Sanders
said, director of the Institute of Govern
ment in Chapel Hill. "Certainly, the
number of prosecutions has risen. But
there's no single explanation as to why
we're hearing more about political wrong
doing." UNC political science professor Thad
Beyle agrees that a simple explanation
can't be found. Beyle, also the chairman
for the Center for Public Policies
Research, a Raleigh-based government
study group, said what's happening in
North Carolina can be partially attributed
to current changes the state is going
through from an agricultural state to a
more urban one.
Beyle said he also thinks the media may
have an influence. "We're hearing more
about corruption than we've ever heard
before," Beyle said. "It seems that more
questionable or illegal practices are going
on and that more people are being caught.
It could be that the press is more vigilant."
Another popular theory among govern
ment officials, however, is that pro
secutors and investigators are more active
in their efforts to root out corruption. So
active, in fact, that the FBI and federal
prosecutors have been accused of being
overzealous because of political pressures.
U.S. attorneys are appointed by the
Justice Department. Since the department
is part of a Republican administration,
N.C. Democrats are a little uneasy about
Republican prosecutors operating in a
heavily Democratic state.
"There's some evidence that at certain
levels in both state and local levels of
government in North Carolina officials
may feel that the FBI and prosecutors are
overzealous," Beyle said. "That's certain
ly true in light of the Soles trial, where he .
was found innocent."
The charge has been repeated f requently
across the state. U.S. Attorney Charles
Brewer, who serves the Western District of
North Carolina, acknowledges that Demo
crats may think party politics has an in
fluence. But Brewer does not agree with
the charge.
"The thing is, 99 percent of the public
officeholders in North Carolina are
Democrats," Brewer said. "People say
that federal prosecutors are only going
after Democrats, and the people who have
been indicted are Democrats.
"Actually, we're prosecuting everyone
we think is involved in corrupt politics, no
matter what party. It's just that there are
so many Democrats in the state."
There's only one object in mind when
Brewer prosecutes in cases of vote fraud,
as in Clay and Alexander counties - clean
elections. "That's the reason DAs are pro
secuting and courts are convicting. We're
wanting to create clean elections."
Those who follow politics in North
Carolina also are wanting to see if the
state's reputation for clean government
will be permanently damaged.
"I don't think we're losing that reputa
tion," Beyle said. "After all, corruption
happens in every state."