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<br />financial scheme
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<br />BY MEGAN BOLDT
<br />Pioneerness
<br />
<br />To many in the small congre-
<br />'gation of Shiloh Family Church
<br />in Forest Lake, Newan "Midkiff is
<br />a man of-God. He gavetQthose
<br />in need and even helped found
<br />the church.
<br />But federal regulators paint
<br />a different picture, In a Jawsuit
<br />~rued in U.S. District Court in
<br />Texas, the SecUlities and
<br />-;;:xchange Commission' accuses
<br />Midkiff and five olhers of partie.
<br />:ipating in a high-yield invest-
<br />'ment scheme that offered
<br />jnonthly returns between 4 per-
<br />cent and 12 percent - without
<br />risk
<br />The scheme allegedly
<br />brought in aL least $36 million
<br />and possibly as much as $150
<br />million.
<br />Midkiff, 63, did not return
<br />messages left for comment. But
<br />he did ,deny wrongdoing to
<br />Mark King, a financial consult.
<br />ant for the firm that has court-
<br />ordered control ofms and the
<br />other defendants' frozen
<br />assets.
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<br />CHURCH FOUNDER, 4A
<br />
<br />Insurers
<br />must fund
<br />Medicare
<br />drugs
<br />
<br />Federal order follows
<br />mixups with new plan
<br />
<br />BY ROBERT PEAR
<br />New York'Times
<br />
<br />With tens of thousands of
<br />people unable to get medicines
<br />promised by Medicare, the Bush
<br />administrationbastoJdinsurers
<br />that they must provide a 30.day
<br />supply of any drug that a benefi-
<br />ciary was previously taking,
<br />and it said poor people must not
<br />be charged mare than $5 far a
<br />covered drug.
<br />The actions came after se\'"
<br />cral states declared public
<br />health emergencies, and many
<br />states, including Minnesota and
<br />Wisconsin, arinounced that they
<br />would step in to pay for- pre-
<br />scrtptiohS thatshauld have been
<br />covered by the federal Medicare
<br />program.
<br />Republicans have joined'
<br />Democratsinassertingt.hat.the
<br />federal governmentbot.ched the
<br />beginning of the prescription
<br />drug prograrll, which started
<br />Jan.. 1. Peopl~ who had signed
<br />up for coverage fOlmd thatt.hey
<br />i,vere not on the government's
<br />list of sllbscribers. Insurers said
<br />they had no vvay to identify poor,
<br />
<br />MEDICARE DRUG$,4A
<br />
<br />MONDAY JANUARY 16, 2006
<br />
<br />Plaster walls are cracking, paint is peeling and visitors are
<br />sometimes warned to wa,tch where they walle But renovating
<br />Minnesota's lOl'year,old Capitol would be expensive"
<br />
<br />
<br />JOHNOOMAN,PIONEERPRESS
<br />Rep_ Matt Oea", a" architect and legislator from Dellwood, ~ays "the most beautiful state capitDI inthe
<br />l1ation" isn't getting the preservation efforts itde5erves. He is pus hing his colleagues to Sllpport a renovatiol1.
<br />
<br />Majestic, ornate
<br />andshowingits age
<br />
<br />BY BILL SAI,[SBURY
<br />Pioneer Press
<br />
<br />he was astounded when he arrived
<br />at the Capitol in 2005 to discover
<br />large cracks in the plaster in the
<br />third-floor ceiling, peeling p$t.ill
<br />the rotunda, sections of .hallways
<br />roped Dfft.olhe public Ulld "watch
<br />your step" warning signs.
<br />He concluded that architectCass
<br />Gilbert's masterwork wasn't getting
<br />the attention it deserves. After
<br />spending his first year in the House
<br />learning the legislative ropes, he
<br />
<br />has decided to take t.he lead this
<br />year in tryfngto persuade his col-
<br />leagues 10 cough up the-money
<br />needed to renovate the massive
<br />marble and granite Renaissance
<br />palace overloaking downtol';'l1
<br />St.Paul
<br />"It'slOOyearsold,andlt'sshow_
<br />irlgits age," Dean said
<br />\'Vhen the Capitol first opened
<br />
<br />"The Capit~l is the finest public
<br />building ill Minn~sota and, in my
<br />opinian, the most beautiful.state
<br />capitol in the nation, and THE CEIL-
<br />ING IS FALLlNG DO\VN!" says Rep.
<br />Matt Dean, a fimt-term Republican
<br />from Dellwooli
<br />Dean, the.anly architect in the
<br />Legislature, recalled last week that
<br />
<br />STATE CAPITOL, SA
<br />
<br />PHASE 1
<br />
<br />PROPOSED RESTORATION PLAN
<br />FOR CAPiTOL'S INTERIOR
<br />The Capitol Area Architectural and
<br />Planning Board's plan, with relocation
<br />expensesadded,wouldco,tabout
<br />$79 million.over six to eight years.
<br />
<br />Thi,phase covers the rotllndJ and the
<br />north corridor, which includes the
<br />House chamber, Same upgrades in the
<br />corridor as the other wings, induding
<br />restoring ceiling painting and art-
<br />workonthegroundfloor.Therotun_
<br />da would get improved lighting, and
<br />the stone work would be deaned.
<br />Dome interior would be replastered
<br />and repainted. legislatlJre would con-
<br />sider this phase in 2010.
<br />Pricetag:$Z4.1 million
<br />
<br />PHASE 3
<br />
<br />If the project is
<br />approved,thereno-
<br />vation of the east
<br />wing of the Capitol,
<br />including the
<br />Supreme Court
<br />chamber,would
<br />begin in mid-2007
<br />after the legislative
<br />indudes
<br />
<br />MINNESOTA'S FIRST
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<br />of men likely
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<br />BY KEV
<br />Piol!,
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<br />HUDSON, Wis_-
<br />Lrip to a troubled I
<br />Bishop-RapilaelFlis:
<br />notdairlgmoreabou
<br />judge ruled probabl
<br />molested a teenage I
<br />"1 find it necessaJ
<br />cerelyformyfailing
<br />attentiveness," FUs,
<br />couJd turn the clock
<br />be given another 0
<br />much better."
<br />:Fliss, who leads 1
<br />WIs., stood before ai
<br />Patrick's Catholic C
<br />from the February 21
<br />inc!udinglongtlrneI
<br />nelL
<br />A judge ruJecj in
<br />prohable cause that,
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