Man convicted of killing Fossey denied job

Man convicted of killing Fossey denied job

March 15 2005 at 05:25PM

The state of Nebraska made - and then abruptly took back - a job offer to a man convicted of murdering Dian Fossey, the American wildlife researcher whose work in Africa was the subject of the movie Gorillas In The Mist.

The Health and Human Services System announced on Monday that Wayne Richard McGuire had been hired as programme director of a mental health office.

The offer was withdrawn, however, after Associated Press reported that McGuire had been found guilty in absentia in Rwanda in the 1985 slaying of Fossey, who was hacked to death at a jungle camp.

McGuire, who has denied any involvement in Fossey's killing and most recently worked for a mental health agency in Oklahoma, said his conviction had not come up during the interview process. - Sapa-AP


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Mossey campaign funds audited
By KEVIN O'HANLON / The Associated Press

As state Sen. Ray Mossey of Bellevue works to have felony drug charges against him dismissed, his re-election campaign is being audited by the state.



Mossey's campaign is being investigated for missing reporting deadlines with the state Accountability and Disclosure Commission.

Mark Hinman, deputy director of the commission, also said Mossey had been asked to explain discrepancies in some of his past reports.

Mossey did not immediately return a call to his office Wednesday.

Mossey, 37, was arrested in June and later charged with fraudulently obtaining the prescription pain killer hydrocodone.


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Mossey Charged
Accused of drunken driving


Former state Senator Ray Mossey has been formally charged with driving while intoxicated, more than a month after he was ticketed when his vehicle ran off a snowy Sarpy County road.

Cass County Attorney Nathan Cox Monday issued a one-sentence, written release noting that Mossey had been charged in Sarpy County Court.

Cox has taken over the case because Mossey's former wife works in the Sarpy County Attorney's office.

Mossey was ticketed the night of February ninth on suspicion of drunken driving in Sarpy County after his vehicle slid into a ditch. Officials say his blood-alcohol measured .16. The legal limit is .08.

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JOHANNS BETWEEN ROCK AND HARD SPOT!
Date: 05/01/04, at 05:11:18
Topic: News and Views


A credibility gap exists between the story recently told to Nancy Hicks, statehouse reporter for the Lincoln Journal Star by John C. Ball, Lincoln attorney representing ex-con Rocky L. Mueller (a.k.a. Rock) and the story told Ms. Hicks by Mike Johanns, Governor of Nebraska, also an attorney. What the public has thus far been told, I believe, is only a small tip of a very large iceberg. Since Johanns has denied encouraging now State Treasurer Ron Ross, who was at the time the event in question occurred, director of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. The story of when and how I became involved in what has turned into Mueller-gate, follows. I hope you will find it to be somewhat interesting - almost like Divine Providence.

It has now become obvious that when I hired Rock Mueller to do some concrete work at my home, he was not really so much "between jobs" but rather, between felony level crimes. His story was that he had been a counselor at Peru State and been canned when a difference of opinions occurred between he and a supervisor. It is important to inject at this early moment the fact that Rock is a very personable chap that one could not help but like him.

Part of what I hired him to do was to remove the concrete floor of my patio and the block walls that surrounded it, then to replace it with a larger one. This involved tearing down cement block walls and breaking up the 3 inch concrete floor of the structure. In order to get the work done a bit earlier than might have otherwise been the case, I took off several days from work and became a wheel-borrow operator. Rock broke up the concrete with a 5' wrecking bar and I hauled the pieces out to a trailer in front of my house which was taken periodically to the city dump to off-load the broken concrete.

During our working together, we talked about the usual stuff, where we were originally from, where we went to school and college and of course about Big Red Football. Rock told me he had played some football in earlier years and had done a lot of weight lifting. I had no doubt from the way he could swing a sledge-hammer and use a wrecking bar that he was in darn good shape physically. Little did I know that his conditioning has probably taken place while he was in the state penitentiary.

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11/25/2003
Bruning Files Charges; Byrd Says No
Nebraska State Treasurer Loralee Byrd pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of official misconduct.
Attorney General Jon Bruning said he had charged Byrd with 13 counts, but dropped it to one charge in exchange for the guilty plea.
He said he wanted Byrd to admit guilt in connection with her writing 13 checks for $300,000 dollars, and putting them in her vault. She later cancelled the checks. She denied it was an attempt to spare her office from legislatively mandated budget cuts.
Later, Governor Mike Johans asked Byrd to resign her office, saying public officials have to be held to a higher standard.
Byrd refused, saying she was elected to do a job, and will continue doing that.
Byrds lawyer compared the charge to ticket scalping or other similar
11/25/2003
Bruning Files Charges; Byrd Says No
Nebraska State Treasurer Loralee Byrd pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of official misconduct.
Attorney General Jon Bruning said he had charged Byrd with 13 counts, but dropped it to one charge in exchange for the guilty plea.
He said he wanted Byrd to admit guilt in connection with her writing 13 checks for $300,000 dollars, and putting them in her vault. She later cancelled the checks. She denied it was an attempt to spare her office from legislatively mandated budget cuts.
Later, Governor Mike Johans asked Byrd to resign her office, saying public officials have to be held to a higher standard.
Byrd refused, saying she was elected to do a job, and will continue doing that.
Byrds lawyer compared the charge to ticket scalping or other similar offenses.
Some legislators said they may begin impeachment proceedings against Byrd.

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Chambers: Fire person who offered job to man convicted of murder



LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The tumult over a job offer made by a state agency to a man convicted in the murder of an American wildlife researcher spilled into a third day Wednesday, with one lawmaker calling for the resignation of the man who made the offer.

"That person should be fired," Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha said.

The state Health and Human Services System announced Monday that Wayne Richard McGuire had been hired as program director of a mental-health program.


The job offer was withdrawn hours later, however, after The Associated Press reported that McGuire was found guilty in absentia in Rwanda in the slaying of Dian Fossey, the researcher whose work in Africa was the subject of the movie "Gorillas in the Mist."



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