The O-town Scene - Oneonta, NY
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R.o.B.S. AMHERST — An argument over natural gas drilling led to a domestic dispute in Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo, over the weekend, Am- herst police reported. According to a media release from the Amherst Police Department, police responded to a 911 call from a neighbor who heard shouting and screaming from a home near the Westwood Country Club late Saturday night. When police arrived, officers found Martin Kavanagh, 42, locked inside the bathroom of his home. His face was bruised, and his cloth- ing was torn. Kavanagh told police he had gotten into an argument with his wife, Dorelle, who police found next door at a neighbor’s B. It’s hard to tell what’s true these days. Take a gander below, and guess if A. and B. are Real or B.S. (Answers at the bottom of the page.) Domestic dispute A. erupts over gas drilling house. Dorelle Kavanagh suffered injuries to her hands and forearms. Husband and wife both refused medical treatment. When asked how the argument began, the Kavanaghs separately told police that they began arguing about natural gas drilling. Martin Kavanagh had brought home a sign sponsored by an upstate New York land- owners’ coalition in support of reversing the city of Buffalo’s ban on natural gas drilling. According to Martin Kavanagh, his wife told him the sign would go up in the couple’s yard “over my dead body.” Police said no charges were filed in the incident. Scammer goes bust at poker, faces prison time ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque man was sentenced to prison Wednesday after he asked to repay his investment scam victims through poker tournament winnings, but failed to find luck at the card table. “This was long overdue,” said J. Dee Dennis Jr., the superintendent of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department. “This individual wanted to con us into believing that keeping him out of prison would help his victims get their money back. ... We’re calling his bluff. It’s about time we sent him to prison.” Samuel McMaster Jr. stayed out of prison after prosecutors agreed to a request from his attorney to delay sentencing so that he could earn money to repay his victims. The former insurance agent was accused of steal- ing nearly $450,000 from 23 investors over several years. The way he chose to attempt earning money for restitution was through gambling, said Phyllis H. Bowman, lead prosecutor with the state Securities Division. Bowman said she was not aware of other attempts to make restitution by gambling, although she noted that others have tried wto earn money through real estate speculat- ing. As a result of McMaster’s lack of luck at the poker table, Bowman said “the means by which somebody obtains restitution, even if it's legal and legitimate, will probably be questioned a little more closely.” After he failed to pay, McMaster was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison, five years of supervised probation after his release and ordered to make full restitution to his victims. He pleaded guilty last year to 26 felony charges, including securities fraud, sale of an unregistered security and sale of a security by an unlicensed broker-dealer. Bowman said McMaster got his clients to in- vest in promissory notes through his company, Santa Fe Financial Group Inc. The securities were not registered, he wasn't a licensed broker and the money was not used for investment purposes. Investors had been promised up to 10 percent interest, but Bowman said they never received anything, not even the return on their original investments. April 14, 2011 O-Town Scene 23 Featured Musician Dar Williams online at wuow.org. This Each week, SUNY One- onta-based NPR affiliate WUOW features a worthy musician in its Friday Night Featured Artist radio pro- gram from 8 to 9 p.m. at 104.7 FM in Oneonta and week’s fea- tured artist is Hudson Valley singer songwriter Dar Wil- liams, who has been engaging audi- ences with her musical artistry since the early 1990s when she rose from the Northeast coffeehouse circuit to the national spotlight. PARTIAL PLAYLIST If I Wrote You What Do You Hear In These Sounds? Empire The Buzzer Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere A. is B.S., by Emily Popek; B. is real, by The Associated Press.