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- <text id=90TT1601>
- <title>
- June 18, 1990: Pleaded Guilty:Thomas Root
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 76
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- <body>
- <p> PLEADED GUILTY. Thomas Root, 37, lawyer-pilot who suffered
- a still unexplained gunshot wound as his small plane crashed
- into the Atlantic off the Bahamas last July; to five federal
- counts of forgery and fraud; in Washington. Specializing in
- helping clients get radio-station licenses, Root admitted using
- false documents in the applications. He and others face similar
- state charges in North Carolina, where they are accused of
- bilking more than 1,000 investors of $8 million.
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- </body>
- </article>
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