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FD-350 (Rev.12-5-78) (Indicate page, name of : newspaper, city and state.) Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Daage 3A Edition: 11/23/82 (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Title: NELLIE BELL KASSIM ET AL, FAG - DHHS; CharacterNARCOTICS MATTERS or Classification: 209A-302 Submitting Office: Detroit no Jno ,2 acquitted prescripton mill case 3338333333 By TIM BELKNAP Free Press Staff Writer Witnesses ran the social A federal jury convicted four:people Monday of conspiring in the prescrip- spectrum from a world- tion drug empire of Nellie Bell Kassim, famous doctor to a but two of her lower-level employes were acquitted. cobbler. Found guilty after more than two weeks of deliberations were Dr.Ryan A: Krebs, 29, of Milan; pharmacist witness stand ran the social spectrum Bernard Levine, 33,of West Bloomfield; froma world-famous.doctor,Dr.Henry Shirley Bradley Danner,46,of Detroit Heimlich, whowas a character witness and Linda. Ricks, 35, of Detroit. They for Krebs, toa cobbler,Leroy Bonham, face maximum sentences-of five years who said he served as a gigolo to in prison and $15,000 fines. Kassim and her two sisters. Acquitted of conspiracy in thetwo- The sisters also figured in the trial, month trial were Maggie Curry,29,and but by their absence.Testimonydisput- Johin (Jersey Bull) Zellner, 53, bothof ed by Kassim indicated that shehad'one Detroit. of the sisters, Mozell Barber, 32, mur- dered by a contract killer in Detroit in TEN OTHERS have pleaded:guilty to March 1981 because Barber was sus- conspiracy or related charges, includ- pected of informing. Authorities say ing Kassim,who agreed to a 10-year they are still-investigating the murder. prison sentence in return for co-operat- The other sister,Nancy Lee McGin- ing with federal prosecutors Ellen Den- nis,31, who waslast reported living in nis and James McCarthy. Mississippi, was scheduled to be a de- Kassim,42, of Southfield, was the fense witness who would refute some See KAsSIM,Page4A 02 key witness in the trial. Others on the t SEARCHED. INDEXED SERIALIZEDAFILED 19%9 FB -DETRO