Bulletin Daily Paper 12/11/10

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The gifts to give

Rodeo: Culver’s Bobby Mote to ride for another title

The best of movies, music and books • COMMUNITY, B1

SPORTS, D1

WEATHER TODAY

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Cloudy, wintry mix early, then moderate rain High 44, Low 40 Page C8

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CYCLOCROSS NATIONALS: A LITTLE LOCAL CHEER

Tax vote could help area biomass plants

Mitchell Stevens, of Bend, rounds a corner Friday as students from Westside Village Magnet School cheer during the Cyclocross Nationals in Bend. In Sports: Another local sets his sights on an elite title.

By Keith Chu The Bulletin

Inside • Bill Clinton, back in White House, backs tax deal, Page A2 • The tax deal to families, Page A7

Dean Guernsey The Bulletin

Banker accused as 23-year accomplice to Madoff By Diana B. Henriques and Peter Lattman

ELECTION 2010

GOP carried Deschutes in all except Bend’s core Newly released final tallies break down the way residents voted in two of the county’s most hotly contested races

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MIKE KOZAK DID NOT WIN ANY PRECINCTS IN DESCHUTES COUNTY

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WON WITH MORE THAN Tony DeBone, 60 PERCENT Republican

WON WITH MORE THAN Dallas Brown, 60 PERCENT Democrat

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Vol. 107, No. 345, 70 pages, 6 sections

TOP NEWS INSIDE

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Gutenberg College, a Eugenebased four-year college, may move to Sisters and plans to file a landuse application with the city on Friday. Gutenberg describes its curriculum as “a Great Books education from a biblical worldview,” according to its website. With about 30 students, the college employs roughly 10 people. School leaders, though, hope to gradually increase enrollment to around 150 students. The college, which charges about $11,000 in annual tuition, considered a move to Sisters a few years ago, but those plans fell through. Mac Hay, the city’s economic development director, recently revived those discussions. If Gutenberg does move to Sisters, it would be one of the first victories of the current Sisters City Council’s two-year economic development push. Hay, though, counseled caution because the plans are not yet final. “This is just the very start of the process,” Hay said. “It’s just really the beginning.” The school is searching for a new home because it is running short on space, according to Peter Wierenga, a provost with Gutenberg. The college awards bachelor’s degrees and its curriculum is liberal arts, according to Wierenga. All Gutenberg students must take and pass the same courses to graduate. Those courses include classical Greek, German, calculus, relativity theory and biblical philosophy. Though the college’s administration did not always aim at moving to Sisters, the college and city could be a good fit, Wierenga said. “(The possible move) isn’t anything necessarily particular to Sisters, other than finding the opportunity perhaps to be part of a delightful small community in Central Oregon,” Wierenga said. See College / A7

Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin

The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper

Gutenberg hopes to up its enrollment By Patrick Cliff

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Christian college, with about 30 students, eyes Sisters

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WON WITH MORE THAN Jason Conger, 60 PERCENT Republican

WON WITH MORE THAN Judy Stiegler, 60 PERCENT Democrat

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New York Times News Service

A prominent Austrian banker who portrayed herself for two years as one of Bernard Madoff’s biggest victims was accused Friday of conspiring for 23 years to funnel more than $9 billion into his immense global Ponzi scheme. The accusations were made in a civil lawsuit that sought damages of $19.6 billion — the sum of the cash lost in a fraud that wiped out nearly $65 billion in paper wealth and ruined thousands of investors on almost every rung of the economic ladder. The central defendant in the complaint is Sonja Kohn, who was the hub of a complex network of European and Caribbean funds that channeled money to Madoff. A well-connected banker in her native Vienna, Kohn insisted she never suspected her trusted friend was running a global Ponzi scheme. In reality, according to the complaint, she knowingly raised billions of dollars in cash to sustain Madoff’s fraud in exchange for at least $62 million in secret kickbacks — payments she insisted be handed over face to face and never put in the mail. The lawsuit says that her collusion was so pivotal to the fraud that Madoff tried to destroy evidence of their connection before his arrest in 2008. The civil complaint against Kohn was part of a fusillade of litigation filed in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan during the last month by Irving Picard, the trustee trying to recover assets for victims who sustained cash losses in the fraud. The trustee has until midnight Saturday — the second anniversary of Madoff’s arrest — to file any lawsuits seeking to recover cash withdrawn from the Ponzi scheme before its collapse. See Madoff / A7

WASHINGTON — A key tax incentive for renewable power plants — including two major Central Oregon biomass projects — was included in a tax deal unveiled by U.S. Senate Democrats late Thursday night. Planned biomass plants in La Pine and Warm Springs are relying on a federal grant program that pays for 30 percent of new renewable power plants. Neither plant has broken ground, however, meaning they could lose out on millions in grants when the program expires at the end of this year. The Senate tax plan includes a one-year extension of the grant program, which was created through the 2009 stimulus bill. See Tax deal / A7

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NOBEL: China censors ceremony as democracy activist honored, Page A2


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