THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS	Local Saturday, June 21, 1997

``The question has come up,'' Abraham said yesterday. ``We are interested in how Einhorn supported himself or was supported.''

She said her attorneys were looking at Einhorn's American friends to see if they sent him money or helped him get out of the country. She said those who helped him could be charged with aiding and abetting a fugitive.

But she said her office and U.S. authorities have no jurisdiction over foreign nationals outside the country who may have aided Einhorn.

The DA's office sent a draft of the extradition filing to the U.S. Justice Department yesterday. Justice will screen the document, request changes if necessary, then send it to the State Department for translation into French and shipment to the U.S. Embassy's legal attache in Paris.

Einhorn fled in 1981 shortly before his trial in the murder of his former girlfriend Helen ``Holly'' Maddux was scheduled to begin.

He was later tried and convicted in absentia for bludgeoning Maddux and stuffing her body in a trunk in the closet of his Powelton Village apartment.

After hiding in Ireland and Sweden, Einhorn was captured last week in a country village in France. The DA's office is preparing to battle with Einhorn's defense team to extradite him to Philadelphia to start serving his life sentence.

Speculation has swirled as many wonder how Einhorn, who didn't keep any kind of steady job, could support himself.

When he was captured, he and Annika Flodin, who identified herself as Einhorn's wife, were living in a windmill-turned-cottage. They paid $90,000 for the home.

Richard DiBenedetto, head of the DA's fugitives and extradition unit that tracked Einhorn, said he suspected that Flodin had family money that supported them.

Einhorn, a charismatic figure who charmed Philadelphians during the 1960s and '70s with cosmic topics like cryogenics and the paranormal, was known as a freeloader.

Friends were always willing to give him money or a place to stay.

``It was his M.O.,'' said a friend and Philly playboy, Harry Jay Katz. ``In all the time I'd known him, I never knew him to pick up a check. Ira was America's houseguest.''

One of those he charmed into keeping him in the style to which he was accustomed was millionairess Barbara Bronfman. The Seagram's liquor heiress sent Einhorn money while he was on the run.

``It was more like he was her mentor,'' DiBenedetto said. ``He appeared to manipulate her, too.''

Abraham said yesterday that because Bronfman, a Canadian, is a foreign national, the DA's office has no jurisdiction to charge her with anything. The same goes for Flodin or any other foreigners who helped support Einhorn in Europe.

``But all of this takes third, even fourth, seat behind making sure he's returned to this country,'' Abraham said.

Staff writer Ron Goldwyn contributed to this report.

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