European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 18, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 Milli Vanilli relieved truth is out real vocalists Are former gis stationed in Europe from wire reports angry fans turned in their a Omilli vanillin recordings Friday and radio stations vowed to pull the pop duo off the air after their German producer announced that Rob pilatus and fab Morvan did no to sing their own Way to Fame. In los Angeles the two did what they and their associates say they be been dying to do a sing in a recording studio. A a they re relieved a said publicist Eliot Sekuler describing his clients reactions to the Public discovery that Frank Farian the producer had made pilatus and Morvan the front men for music recorded by unseen performers. After the two went to Farian last week insisting they wanted to sing Farian fired them and held a news conference announcing the truth. Meanwhile it was revealed the three actual singers were former gis who had been stationed in Europe. Farian would not identify the real vocalists but Usa today and other newspapers reported that two of the singers Are John Davis and Charles Shaw. The third was unidentified. Shaw declined to name the two other Young Black americans who Are the voices heard on the Milli Vanilli album. Houston born Shaw who went to Germany in 1978 As an army private and remained As a Singer recorded the rap a and Only the rap a on a girl you know its True with other singers for Farian he said Friday in a phone interview from Germany. A i was paid for my studio work and that was it a he said. This was before pilatus and Morvan even came along. A a a in be never met Milli Vanilli a Shaw said. But when the song was released under the Milli Vanilli name and became a hit a now defunct German record company that had signed Shaw promoted the fact that he was the rapper on the song. In sep or Michael Greene president of the National Academy of recording arts and sciences tells reporters in Las vegas Milli Vanilli May have its grammy taken away. Shaw also readily admitted it to interviewers. A nobody believed it a recalled Shaw 30, who lives in Mannheim and works As a professional Singer. A they said its another Guy trying to make some Money. So i said a just drop  a Shaw said he got several threatening phone Calls at the time and was never hired again by Farian. A i have to watch myself. This is a hard game a Shaw said. A i never realized what a threat was until i got involved with this  in the states radio station Wool pm in Minneapolis declared itself a Omilli Vanilli free a saying it will no longer play the duos hit 1988 debut album a girl you know its True a which earned them a grammy for Best new group. A about 150 listeners took up the stations offer to Exchange Milli Vanilli recordings for a cd or cassette of their Choice program director Greg Strassell said. Station Wulz pm in Tampa fla., apologized to listeners for carrying a a blatant misrepresentation and demanded an apology from Arista records and Milli vanillin a management. Program manager Marc Chase said the station will Boycott Milli Vanilli records and May even Boycott All Arista artists. On tuesday pilatus and Morvan will hold a news conference to discuss their plans to remain performers. They have a new manager and a new publicist a and a voice coach. Apparently they be been working with him for about a year. The duos record company Arista records said it did no to know the pair were fronts for other vocalists but was not embarrassed by the revelation. The potentially defunct Milli Vanilli still risks being stripped of its 1990 grammy award. Michael Greene president of the National Academy of recording arts and sciences said the Academy May not reach a decision until the end of this year. A a we re appalled by it a he added at a Las vegas news conference. A but our hearts go out to these two Guys because they re very easy  a Rob and fab Are the victims Here a said their former manager Todd head Lee who described the two As starving Young artists in Germany when Farian found them. Headlee recalled being on a 10-week european tour with the duo last year. A two weeks into it we were in Barcelona and they broke Down they were literally in tears a a please you be got to get Clive Davis president of Arista to get Frank to let us do the vocals on the new album. We can to do this anymore a a Headlee recounted. Headlee represented them until he and his employer Gallin Morey associates were fired. Since then Gallin Morey associates has fired Headlee and he now works for himself. A current Milli Vanilli associate echoed that Story and said the duo was essentially threatened with a the withholding of Money due them. They were coerced to stay in line not Rock the boat. It got real ugly there for a while. Whatever their relative talents Are they were working with a producer who was extremely  pilatus called Farian a a control  a we were afraid for two years that this Day would come a pilatus said. A a we be cried about it sometimes. But deep inside we wanted it to happen.�?�3 legion of doom hackers get prison terms by new Day three members of the a legion of doom a a defunct group of computer hackers whose expertise is legendary in the hacking underworld a were sentenced to prison Friday As Telephone companies along the East coast took Steps to protect themselves from threats of retaliation. Franklin e. Darden jr., 24, and Robert j. Riggs 22, pleaded guilty earlier this year in Federal court in Atlanta where they and Adam e. Grant 23, live to one conspiracy count. Grant pleaded guilty to possessing 15 or More Access devices with intent to defraud. Friday Riggs who had a previous criminal record was sentenced to 21 months in a Federal prison and the other defendants were Given 14-month sentences. According to sources at a new York area Tele phone company Rynex corp., Parent of the new England Telephone and new York Telephone companies has increased its monitoring of both physical and electronic Access to its switches a the computers that drive the phone system a after receiving information that hackers from Australia England and new York would be attempting some form of sabotage. A the Telephone companies Are aware of these threats. They re into what they Call a full audit Mode a said Dale Boll a special agent of the . Secret service in Washington . The secret service which investigates computer and telecommunications crimes is monitoring the situation Boll said but a a we re not giving it much  Peter Goodale a spokesman for Rynex corp., while admitting that the Telephone company a received some threats to our system said a a we re just not going to talk about  the governments investigation of the legion of doom a loosely based group of about 20 hackers nationwide was sparked by an Anonymous Call in june 1989 to an Indiana Bell Security representative. A Hacker apparently attempting to show off told the Security representative that five Telephone company computers that route Calls known As switches would be programmed to shut Down the Telephone system nationwide. At amp to investigators launched a nationwide search and found a logic bombs a time delayed programs a in switches m Colorado Georgia and new Jersey which were programmed to shut Down service in portions of those  reportedly argued about killing Jogger by new Day new York a youths attacking the Park i�8ser argued Over whether to Kin her so she could not identify them Quot Ter the beating and rape defendant Kharey Wise said in a videotaped statement played for the jury Friday. As soon As the tape ended the prosecution rested its Case. S0ri,day�?T attorney for defendant j Ardson sad outside court that had changed his strategy and will not argue As he had told the jury that Richardson a videotaped statement was coerced by police. Instead Howard Diller said that he will argue that the statement in which Richardson says he was scratched while trying to Rescue the Jogger from her attackers on april 19,1989, is True. And he will argue that the detectives who testified that Richardson told them he was scratched in a fight with the Jogger were lying on the stand. The completion of the prosecutions Case comes after four weeks of testimony from 33 witnesses and 183 exhibits that included three videotaped statements. Some court observers said Friday that the evidence against the two defendants in this trial is at least As Strong As the evidence in the first Central Park Jogger Case in which three youths were convicted of rape and assault. In his second videotape Wise who was 16 at the time talks about a debate among the youths on whether to kill the investment banker. A Steven Lopez was Gonna kill her. They was Gonna kill her so she wont identify us. And Yusef was saying a done to kill her Man done to kill her. Its bad enough you raping her. Done to kill her Man a Wise said. At another Point on the tape Wise said that he yelled a we done to want no dead body on our  at the first trial there was no testimony from the youths in their videotaped statements about such a conflict