Variety Club Tent No. 6 Charities, Inc. - Page 15

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          In 1986 Popovic directed the bingo workers to lie to the Ohio               
          Attorney General’s investigators regarding compensation paid to             
          them.                                                                       
               The Elyria Police Department conducted an undercover                   
          investigation of petitioner’s bingo games held in Elyria between            
          November 8, 1985, and March 21, 1986.  Accountants and                      
          investigators from the Ohio Attorney General’s office monitored             
          petitioner’s bingo games held on March 14, 1986, and March 15,              
          1986, while the Elyria police officers were monitoring the games.           
          Popovic and Zeve knew the Attorney General’s agents were present,           
          but did not know about the undercover police investigation.  When           
          the Attorney General’s agents were present, police investigators            
          noticed changes in the manner in which the bingo games were                 
          conducted, which changes seemed calculated to reduce the receipts           
          from the games.                                                             
               The Elyria Police Department officers and the Ohio Attorney            
          General agents compared their findings to the report of the                 
          receipts made by petitioner, and in all cases the report of                 
          receipts by petitioner and the findings by the Elyria Police                
          Department and the Attorney General were at variance, the                   
          receipts found by the Elyria Police Department and the Ohio                 
          Attorney General being substantially more than those reported by            
          petitioner.                                                                 
               On May 5, 1986, the Common Pleas Court of Lorain County,               
          Ohio, issued a warrant on indictment against petitioner for                 




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