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- <text id=91TT2415>
- <title>
- Oct. 28, 1991: Sentenced:Melvyn Paisley
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 28, 1991 Ollie North:"Reagan Knew Everything"
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 89
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- <p> SENTENCED. Melvyn Paisley, 67, former Assistant Secretary of
- the Navy; to four years in prison and $50,000 in fines; on
- charges of conspiracy to defraud the government, taking bribes
- and theft of government property in connection with the Pentagon
- procurement scandal in the 1980s; in Alexandria, Va. Paisley
- admitted that he had taken nearly $500,000 in kickbacks from
- Unisys Corp., United Technologies Corp. and Mazlat Ltd. in
- return for secret Pentagon data that would help those companies
- secure weapons contracts.
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- </body></article>
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