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INDIANAPOLIS -- A former manager at the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration and three others face criminal charges in a scheme to defraud the state of about $455,000 in job training funds, a prosecutor said Wednesday.\nMarion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said a grand jury indicted Matthew Raibley, the former director of an FSSA job training program, on 10 counts -- including bribery, theft, and obstruction of justice.\nRaibley, 41, allegedly worked with three other men operating a company called Tower LLC.\nThe company claimed to offer training programs at no cost to businesses, but Brizzi said the company billed FSSA for the work without providing any training.\nBrizzi said the state could be out nearly $1 million as it must also repay the federal government the amount wrongly paid out because of the scheme.\nWhite House should reconsider deadline in Iraq, Bayh says\nWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., said Wednesday he believed the White House should reconsider the June 30 deadline for the transfer of power in Iraq.\nMore time might be needed to make sure the transition happens smoothly, but the United States should not be seen as turning its tail and running, the Indiana Democrat said on NBC's "Today" show.\n"I'm afraid there was some naivete about how difficult it would be to reconstruct a society and a lack of knowledge about the history of the place," Bayh said.\n"It's in our best interest to stay the course and try to fashion a democracy there to get at the roots of the radical Islam that spawned the terror that has come home to hit America," he said. "So we're going to give it our best shot. It's a difficult challenge."\nBayh, a member of the Senate's intelligence and armed services committees, said the ultimate success of the U.S. occupation of Iraq was more important than the transition deadline set by President Bush.\nSearch of Lake Wawasee fails to find missing boater\nSYRACUSE, Ind. -- Authorities continued their search Wednesday for a man missing since he went boating on northern Indiana's Lake Wawasee nearly a week ago.\nOfficers from the Department of Natural Resources were doing visual searches by boat for Greg Frericks, 45, who vanished Thursday night during a solo fishing trip.\nThe Syracuse man is officially listed as missing but is presumed dead from drowning, said Lt. John Sullivan of the DNR's Syracuse office.\n"We've narrowed it down to about half-square-mile search area. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," Sullivan said Wednesday.\nConservation officers began their search Friday after Frericks was reported missing when he failed to show up for work at his Fort Wayne insurance office. An empty fishing boat matching one Frericks was using was found Friday morning on the lake about 40 miles northwest of Fort Wayne.\nIn the first three days of the search, the lake was dragged in conjunction with sonar scanning and aircraft was used to look for signs of Frericks, Sullivan said.