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ICA RECORDS SEIZED
An investigator loads a box of paperwork into an Allegheny County District Attorneys Office vehicle Wednesday
after agents from that office executed a search warrant at the ICA headquarters, Downtown.
Sciortino targeted
DA serves search warrant on oversight agencys office
CARL PRINE
by
ANd AARON AUPPERLEE
Seeking banking records, computer
equipment and internal financial doc-
uments, Allegheny County District
Attorneys Office detectives Wednes-
day raided the Downtown headquar-
ters of the state agency overseeing
Pittsburgh finances.
Served on both the Pittsburgh Inter-
governmental Cooperation Authority
office at One Market Street and bank-
ing giant PNC, which provides check-
ing services to the state agency, the
pair of search warrants indicates ICA
Executive Director Henry Sciortino
is the apparent target of a criminal
investigation into a series of white-
collar crimes: tampering with records
or identification; misapplication of
entrusted property belonging to a
government or financial institution;
obstructing the administration of
law; and failing to file financial inter-
est statements with the State Ethics
Commission.
The sole ICA employee since its
founding in 2004, Sciortino did not
return Tribune-Review messages
seeking comment. On Friday, the five
voting members of the ICA board
unanimously voted to end his month-
to-month contract on May 31. He is
paid $12,000 per month.
The search of ICA is part of a wider
probe being conducted jointly by the
district attorney, FBI agents under the
direction of U.S. Attorney for Western
Pennsylvania David J. Hickton, the
Pennsylvania auditor general and
the state attorney general. It follows
a series of Trib stories that detailed
the apparent destruction or loss of
most financial records at the ICA,
which works alongside a similar state
entity under Act 47 authority to ap-
prove Pittsburghs annual budget and
prevent the city from toppling into
municipal bankruptcy.
Detectives arrived at the ICA offices
Pittsburgh group applauds Treasurys choice for $20 bill
Harriet Tubmans image to replace Andrew Jacksons by 2020
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Maxine Engram cant wait to order Wednesday that Treasury Secretary
her commemorative $20 bill featuring
Civil War hero and activist Harriet Andrew Jackson.
AP Tubman, even if that day remains
Tubman will be the first years away.
African American depicted Engram, 69, president of the Pitts- stand with George Washington, Abra-
on U.S. paper money. burgh-based Harriet Tubman Guild, ham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin
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Investigators haul away 21 boxes of evidence and the agencys computer.
building shortly after 10 a.m. Wednes-
day but found the doors bolted. Land-
lord W.D. McCrady told the Trib that
investigators said they would knock
down the doors if he did not arrive
to unlock them.
The ICAs board members appar-
ently did not have a set of keys to
their own agency. Sciortino, who lives
in West Chester, about 280 miles east
of Pittsburgh, was not there for the
search.
At 10:52 a.m., McCrady admitted a
crime scene photographer and three
detectives into the ICAs second-floor
office. At 12:41 p.m., the investigators
removed the last of 21 boxes of ICA
evidence, plus the agencys computer.
At a news conference called at the
foot of the Rachel Carson Bridge
while his detectives ferreted through
the ICAs office, District Attorney
Stephen A. Zappala Jr. told reporters
he was concerned by just the total
lack of substantiation of the trans-
actions by the agency. Currently
vying in the Democratic primary for
said she was overjoyed by the news
Jacob Lew has chosen Tubmans like-
ness to appear on the bill, replacing
Tubman, an African-American abo-
litionist who was born a slave, will
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attorney general, Zappala said that
office and the state auditor general
had oversight of the ICA but failed
to uncover the severity of the chaos
inside the agency that was reported
in the Trib.
And the fact that it came out in
a media expos, basically, by the
Tribune-Review, thats wrong, too,
Zappala said of state government
officials.
He said another search warrant
would be served to seize personal
items belonging to Sciortino in West
Chester, but declined to say when it
would be executed or by which agency.
The affidavits seeking the search
warrants issued Wednesday were writ-
ten by DA Detective Kevin Flanigan, a
certified public accountant who spe-
cializes in white-collar crimes. He
reported that the investigation began
April 4 the second day of the Tribs
two-part investigative series.
Eight days later, he and fellow
ICA A6
as the iconic faces of U.S. currency. name for the organization because
nity at large, said Engram, whose slaves escape to freedom.
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Trump needs strong Franklin & Marshall Colleges
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Republican and Democratic
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WASHINGTON Hillary
Clinton, the nearly unstop- DEMOCRATS
pable Democrat, and Repub-
lican front-runner Donald Hillary Clinton
Trump accelerated Wednes-
day toward Northeast pri-
maries on an increasingly
55%
direct path to presidential March: 53%
nominations after trounc- February: 48%
ing party challengers in
New York.
Clinton, 81 percent of the
Bernie Sanders
way toward clinching the
Democratic nomination 29%
that eluded her eight years March: 28%
ago, can lose every remain- February: 27%
ing contest and still prevail.
Her sweeping victory in the 5 PERCENT OF VOTERS WOULD VOTE FOR
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE, WHILE
New York primary called 11 PERCENT DO NOT KNOW.
into question the durabil-
ity of Bernie Sanders rival
campaign and left him with
severely limited options for
REPUBLICANS
Donald Trump
overtaking her.
While Trump strength-
ened his hand, he is still far
from in the clear. 36%
Trump is focused heavily March: 33%
February: 22%
on clinching the Republi-
can nomination through
voters balloting in state
primaries, thus avoiding a John Kasich
26%
contested national conven-
tion in Cleveland in July.
The businessmans win in March: 30%
his home state keeps him on February: 15%
a path to securing the 1,237
delegates he needs, though
hell have to perform well Ted Cruz
in the round of primaries
in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Connecticut, Rhode Island 24%
and Delaware on Tuesday March: 20%
and in Californias huge February: 12%
contest on June 7.
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Ex-president makes
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He champions wifes
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Former President Bill Clin-
ton stumped for his wife, Demo-
cratic presidential front-runner JUSTIN MERRIMAN | TRIBUNE REVIEW
Hillary Clinton, across Western Bill Clinton stumps for Hillary at
Pennsylvania on Wednesday, the Homestead Apartments.
telling everyone from college
students to senior citizens that
students in his first public
she has what it takes to lead
appearance of the day at the
the nation.
University of Pittsburgh at
Shes the best single change-
Johnstown.
maker Ive ever known, Clin-
ton told hundreds of college CLINTON A4
She made great contributions not of her love of her race and her work
only to the African-American com- during the Civil War with the Under-
munity, but the American commu- ground Railroad to help Southern
organization was founded in 1915 to In the larger context, it shows the
help maintain the Aged Ministers and fact that African Americans are be-
Laymens Home. The group now owns ing accepted as Americans, Engram
and manages an apartment building said. After all, we freed ourselves
and made great contributions to this
for senior citizens in Larimer.
She said founders chose Tubmans TUBMAN A6
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