European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 28,1989 3 plead guilty in procurement Case Alexandria a. A a procurement official with the Marine corps and two defense Industry figures pleaded guilty Friday to charges stemming from the government s investigation of wrong doing in the Pentagon s $150 billion a year purchasing operation. The Marine official. Jack a. Sherman 52, admitted in . District court that he accepted bribes in return for provid ing confidential information about Pentagon contracts. Also pleading guilty were Robert bar rett a former executive at Uniss corp., a defense contractor and Joseph e. Hill a consultant for Uniss and its predecessor Sperry corp. The two pleaded guilty to charges of paying illegal Campaign contributions to members of Congress knowledgeable about the defense procurement business. The pleas marked a continuation of court actions in the investigation. On Jan. 6, a Federal grand jury in Alexandria indicted a Navy employee five other individuals and the defense contractor Tel Edyne electronics on a a Nety of charges including conspiracy racketeering and bribery. The same Day Hazeltine corp. And five men pleaded guilty to different charges. Assistant . Attorney Joseph j. Aro Mca said Sherman was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and the receipt of bribes by a Public official. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 Fine. Prosecutors said Sherman received a total of $43,500 Between october 1986 and june 1987 from an unidentified consultant. The Fri recorded either by audiotape or videotape 16 meetings Between the Consul Tant and Sherman prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Sherman agreed to pro vide the consultant with confidential information relating to the competitive bidding process on a $6 million contract that Sher Man was responsible for awarding. Sherman also provided the consultants in april 1987 with government documents on an upcoming $100 million contract that a company paying the consultant won. . District judge Claude Hilton set Sherman s sentencing for april 7. In the pleas involving Campaign contributions Barrett 55, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United states and in aiding and abetting in making false statements to the government. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 Fine. The government charged that Barrett was involved in a complicated scheme in which Money was funnelled to the elec Tion Campaign of former rep. Bill Chap Pell a Fla. Chappell chaired the House judge says he can Force Bush to testify at trial Washington a _ the judge in the Iran Contra Case Friday said he has the authority to compel president Bush and former president Reagan to testify at the trial of fired National Security Council aide Oliver North. . District judge Gerhard Gesell made the com ment at a hearing where the government argued that North s subpoenas for the testimony of Bush and Rea Gan should be quashed. Gesell said that if it becomes necessary to have the testimony of either Man at North s trial it would Besought Only As a last  As far As the Power of the court to require testimony of Reagan or Bush i do not think there is any question said Gesell. Gesell said such authority must be exercised with great deference to the office of the president and should not be used except As a last resort if there is no other Way to resolve the  Gesell did t Rule on the government s motion to quash the subpoenas Washington attorney Larry Simms who sat in the Spectator Section of the courtroom acknowledged to reporters that he is representing Reagan. Simms said former Justice department official i Teodore Olson is the Lead attorney representing the former president. 6 meanwhile Gesell said he had denied the request of Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh for a subpoena to get spiral notebooks in which North recorded his daily activities when he was at the National Security Council North invoked his fifth amendment privilege against self inc nomination in trying to avoid turning Over the notebooks. Gesell did not explain his denial. Walsh and Gesell Are proceeding As though North will go orinal tuesday although those plans could be thrown off by an me Agency intelligence group in the Bush administration. The group whose work led to the Jan. 13 dismissal of conspiracy and theft charges against North has been reviewing classified documents that North s lawyers and prosecutors plan to present at trial in connection with the 12 criminal charges that remain against him it the panel of intelligence experts concludes that National Security would be harmed by disclosing the documents in open court it could refuse to declassify them jeopardizing the Case against North. Gesell ruled in a dec. 12 order that to ensure a fair trial for North there must be extensive disclosure by the prosecution from the 300 classified documents it planned to use at trial including the verbatim text of Many intelligence reports. That order and the Intelli gence group s refusal to declassify Many of the documents led to Walsh s decision to seek dropping the conspiracy and theft counts against North. North is accused of concealing from Congress and former attorney general Edwin Meese Iii his efforts on behalf of the nicaraguan contras and of covering up the National Security Council s role in diverting m of the Iran arms Satoto the contras. North also is accused of illegally accepting a $13,800 Security system at his Home from co defendant Richard j ecord converting to his own use at least $4,300 in travel or s checks from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero and conspiring to defraud the Treasury of tax Revenue in connection with charitable contributions supporting the contras defense appropriations subcommittee until his defeat last november. Prosecutors said Sperry Uniss paid consultants with the understanding that the consultants would contribute an unspecified amount to political campaigns Barrett collected undated checks from the individuals and gave them to another agent of Uniss who made the contributions to Chappell s Campaign in 1986and 1987, prosecutors said. Hill 76, of Mineola n.y., pleaded guilty to four misdemeanours of making political contributions in the name of an other. He faces a maximum of four years in prison and a Fine of $400,000. Prosecutors said Hill was paid by Sperry Uniss and was. 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Renal investigation would not be released the conversation occurred at 10 36 . On Jan 20after a gang related shooting. 2u a Man identified As Jim Finnila made the Call to Deputy Jim Green to report a shooting Miguel Jimi Nez 5 of Newhall had been shot and Fife off hos ital. Alphonso Tapia 19, a suspected gang member was booked for investigation of murder police said a transcript of the Call was released thursday Talho Merit Chan Green ask Are you Gonna yeah. And i m scared to death Finnila says he conversation continues. Green All right. Has anybody been shot yes or Finnila i Don t know. I Don t know. Are in what have you got there what the hell Are you Yelling about a come on and 8et some squad cars Over a il1 no i Ain 1 getting nobody nowhere unless you talk to me. You want to talk to me  i Ieper said another Call about the shooting had been received seconds earlier and a squad car was sent to the area about four minutes later. I is tu3 eventually arrived and what was believed to be the murder weapon was recovered he said. Green Hung up when the caller was uncooperative u5l?e l answer the questions Deputy Green ms1, Sierer id. He was also concerned that he was tying up a 911 line when others Al Irma Ion might be t0