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S'. 11.'j'1VAHT Rio PERRY <br />Arrc,xvx: AT LA1v <br />1025 PAItK AVT:%`VI; { <br />MINtiEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55404 <br />Trrx,icracix�. <br />336-8011 <br />May 26, 1976 <br />Ms. Ann Alton <br />Hennepin County Attorney's Office <br />Government Center <br />Minneapolis, r inn. 55487 <br />Dear Ms. Alton: <br />This letter will confirm Our conversation in which I <br />stated that I wished to sign a criminal complaint against <br />one William W. Rice, 4324 Har.pshire Avenue North, Minneapolis. <br />You asked me to write this letter setting forth the <br />facts giving rise to this complaint of fraudulently obtaining <br />money by trick or artifice and failure to pay a materialnan, <br />Mr. Rica was hired by Calco Product as subcontractor <br />to excavate, pour footings and build a foundation for an 1800 <br />square foot addition to my home. <br />After the entire foundation was erected, my contractor <br />discovered that WHAT APPEARED TO HE the bott-nm r'nurse of block <br />was Its REALITY a layer of plaster agai r^> c dirt. WHAT APPLA.1,i:,u <br />TO BE footings projecting from under the FALSE block was IN <br />REALITY a 3" strip of cerren t to make IT APPEAR AS IF it teras a <br />projecting footing. <br />This discovery was raue after Mr. Rice had been paid <br />$3,500 by the contractor, at Mr. Rice's request, while I was <br />in Colorado. <br />When Mr. Rice was asked about the false block and false <br />footing, he told my contractor and myself the following story: <br />He had misread the plans and h<tci not (lug creep enough. This was <br />discovered after the foundation walls were built. Ifs: stated tie <br />did not know what to do at that point# realizing his error. So <br />he j ackhammered off the p ro jclet i nc, part of the footings , dug t%.,..,o <br />feet deeper and rather than underp inning the founds:t iota, PIaAS"_"YF ETI <br />U11 AGAINST THE DIRT A4D PAINTEID `riff: WHOU' INTFRI01.OF "Mir. F0- 17NJA-- <br />rrION SO ONE COUT,D CICS I" rI'Fz.L, THAT I"'- WAS PLASTEPT'D DI R7� RATHER THAN <br />A LAYEP OF BLOCK, 'I'tz�.r�, to to -pike it APPFr,.a A; IF Th Ft RE WA.'r; A <br />F'Of)TIINGO HE F"OUE41.tj ac)uut 3" cif cement along theedge of tho <br />Plastered dirt . <br />