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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (2051)	10/23/2001 1:05:24 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 12465

Re: 10/23/01 - AP: Judge Wants Univ. Web Critics Known Tuesday October 23 12:13 PM ET Judge Wants Univ. Web Critics Known ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - A Web hosting company must reveal the anonymous people behind an Internet site that has called the administration at the University of Louisiana-Monroe incompetent and accused top officials of lying, a magistrate ordered. The information must be provided to Richard Baxter, the university's vice president for external affairs, who wants to file a defamation lawsuit. The magistrate also ordered Homestead Technologies Inc. to provide computer logs of all people who have posted, published or provided any content to the site. An unopposed motion asking for the information was filed last week in federal court. The order, which was signed Thursday, was made public Monday. Baxter declined comment about the court order, as did Michael Rymes, who represents the people behind the Web site. In his petition asking for the order, Baxter cited examples of what he called ``extreme, outrageous and malicious content'' on the site: - That outgoing university president Lawson Swearingen has converted funds from the university's athletic foundation to a slush fund. - That Swearingen has lied to university boosters who have been ``conned, stiffed and lied to by a dishonorable man.'' - That ``Baxter's job is to make sure that Swearingen's incompetence and the university's state of decline under Swearingen are kept undercover.'' dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (2051)	10/24/2001 2:14:57 AM
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Re: 10/23/01 - [CGYC] Baltimore Sun: Suspect in plot free on bond; Cult associate will be allowed to seek treatment; 4 others remain jailed Suspect in plot free on bond Cult associate will be allowed to seek treatment; 4 others remain jailed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Sheridan Lyons Sun Staff Originally published October 23, 2001 A 39-year-old Westminster woman posted bond yesterday and was allowed to enter an unspecified treatment program, two days after being charged in a murder plot against her ex-husband allegedly hatched with fellow members of a space-alien cult. Amy C. Dardick of the 500 block of Scott Drive initially was ordered held without bail Saturday afternoon by a Carroll County District Court commissioner, charged with a single count of conspiring between Aug. 1 and Sept. 27 to commit first-degree murder. After conferring at the bench yesterday with the prosecuting and defense attorneys, District Judge Marc G. Rasinsky agreed to set bail at $10,000. The judge ordered that Dardick have no contact with her ex-husband, Lewis Dardick, or their three children, unless it is initiated by her ex-husband. The judge also agreed to allow her to leave Maryland for treatment. Deputy State's Attorney Tracy A. Gilmore and defense attorney James R. Barrett, who represented Dardick at the bail hearing, would not elaborate. A sister of Amy Dardick declined to comment. Some people familiar with the case said Amy Dardick is likely to seek deprogramming treatment. Amy Dardick is an associate of Scott Caruthers, 56, an author and cyber artist who has been a figure of controversy in recent years, his attorney, Richard L. Gershberg, said this month. He noted articles in The Sun about Caruthers' leadership of a cult that claimed to channel communication through cats with a mother space ship. Caruthers and three others named as co-conspirators in a separate alleged murder-for-hire conspiracy remained at the county jail yesterday in lieu of $1 million bail each. Besides Caruthers, Caruthers' wife, Dashielle Lashra, 42, and Dulsa Naedek, 42, all of the 500 block of Scott Drive in Westminster, and David Stuart Pearl, 46, of the 100 block of Masters Court are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and with solicitation of murder. Those four were accused Oct. 3 of targeting a former business associate, David Gable, 51, of Baltimore County and making a down payment with a $6,600 gold bracelet with diamonds and emeralds, and a promise of up to $20 million in stock shares if Gable was killed before an October court date involving the business, according to charging documents. The supposed hit man, Amir Tabassi, a sometimes bodyguard for the group, instead notified Gable and an attorney, according to those charging documents, and he told the police of a conversation in which Caruthers characterized Dardick and three other targets as "other men [who] had been bothering his family." Many of the same events were recounted as the basis for Dardick's arrest in her court file. Regarding Lewis Dardick, Caruthers allegedly provided an envelope with a photograph and personal information, and then voiced "his dislike for Lewis Dardick in the presence of Amy Dardick, Dashielle Lashra and Dulsa Naedek, and makes several defamatory statements about how Lewis Dardick had hurt his family," according to the charging documents. When Tabassi called this a pity, Caruthers allegedly replied, "It will not be a pity when you drop Dardick." A Westminster attorney told police that while he was at a dinner at Scott Drive in early August, Caruthers and Pearl said Dardick's ex-husband was a "target" and Dardick nodded in agreement. Amy Dardick was jailed separately from the two other women during the weekend, officials said. Copyright © 2001, The Baltimore Sun sunspot.net