TOM LUTEY
A $2.5 million damage claim has been filed against members of the Montana Public Service Commission, and staff members, by exiting Commissioner Roger Koopman, the target of an email spying scheme and phony police investigation.
The Montana Department of Administration confirmed receiving the complaint Tuesday, but declined to release the public document before reviewing it for privacy issues. Included with the 16-page complaint were 125 pages of exhibits.
Much of the complaint stemmed from issues previously disclosed to Lee Montana Newspapers by court order after the PSC sued the newspaper rather than hand over public documents. Koopmanâs attorney Chris Gallus confirmed the main subjects of the damage claim and Lee Montanaâs earlier investigative work are the same.
Kihei Matsushima could speak only a bit of English after coming to America from Japan in 1916. His father, Sueji, had come to the states in 1895, making his way working on the railroad across the country to Nebraska and eventually Colorado. After some odd jobs, he found work with a German farmer, Al Leyner, who raised sugar beets near Lafayette, and was able to eventually send for his wife and son. Kihei sent for his wife, Yakuye, in 1918 and their first child, Kiichero, was born on December 24, 1920.
In about 1930, Kihei Matsushima walked high above the Denver Union Stock Yards on the catwalk, as commission men on horseback followed him below as he pointed to pens of cattle he was interested in. A vegetable farmer who still farmed with his father and for the Leyner family, he had a small pasture adjacent to the produce fields that was sitting idle and he had plans to run a few cattle on the grass. A deal was made between Matsushima and the commission man to purchase nine heifers an
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Timmins Police Service seized close to $80,000 worth of drugs including fentanyl and crystal methamphetamine after officers stopped a vehicle just east of Porcupine late Tuesday afternoon.
Two Mississauga residents have been arrested.
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Close to 90 grams of fentanyl was seized along with more than 43 grams of crystal meth. Police also seized more than $5,000 in Canadian currency.
The vehicle was stopped on Hwy. 101 near Bob’s Lake.
According to TPS, the arrests stem from an “intensive drug investigation undertaken by the Timmins Police Service – Drug Enforcement Unit.”
Mississaugans busted with drugs by TPS SHARE ON: Some of the property seized during a traffic stop at Bob s Lake.
(Timmins Police Service)
A traffic stop near Bob’s Lake, east of Porcupine on Tuesday afternoon wrapped up what Timmins Police call “an intensive drug investigation”.
They seized about $80,000 worth of drugs and $5,000 cash.
Among the drugs are fentanyl and crystal meth.
A man and a woman from Mississauga, both 28 years old, have been charged with two counts each of possession for the purpose of trafficking… and one each of possession of property obtained by crime.