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General indicted for role in defense scam
TAMI’A, Fla (AIM A re
tired four star Army general
was among 10 people indicted
Monday in a defense eontrai
tor's alleged 540 million
scheme to sell defective parts
and falsify tests for military
munitions.
Fight were top-level officers
of now-defunct Sooner Defense
of Florida Inc . including re
tired Army Gen. Wallace H.
Nutting of Bidduford Pool,
Maine, the U S. attorney's of
fice said. Tha other two were
government workers who mon
itored work at the company for
compliance with Defense De
partment contracts.
Nutting once was ( hief of the
US Southern-Command based
in Panama and headed the U S
Readiness Command when In
retired In 1985
1 have spent over 40 years ol
honorable service to my coun
try m the U S Army," said
Nutting, t.:t lie said he has
been cooperating with author!
la's, wilt fight the charges and
expects to be cleared
All 10 wore trr(1 ictnd on
charges of conspiracy They
also wore accused of various
counts of submitting false
claims, wire fraud, money laun
dering, making false state
ments, bribery, illegal wiretap
ping and obstruction of a IV
fense Department investigation
The munitions included fuze
assemblies for the 25mm can
non shells used in the main
weapon on the Army's Hradley
l ighting Vehicle and the Ma
rine Corps' bight Armored Ve
hide, as weii as fuzes for Navy
artillery shells A fuze is a de
vice Tor controlling the det
onation of explosives
Investigators said the compa
ny made more than ‘100.000
fuze assemblies
The 10 allegedly conspired to
submit false data and < hums,
make military hardware they
knew dliln't mn'i contract
spei ifu ations anil devise false
testing methods to cheat on Ik'
tense Department testing to
pass off inferior or altered mu
nitions
They also were aroused of
destroying records and divert
mg federal contract payments
for insider" loans and exorbi
tant salaries
The conspiracy count also
an uses them of offering brdx's
and sex. and using intimidation
or harassment to lure i outruns
and stall investigations
During testing hy military
units m the United States, there
were two accidental explosions
of munitions destined lor Ma
mu: vehicles ihere were no in
Juries, I' S A ttornev HolierI
C.erueman said
(ien/man said steps were tak
en to ensure that none of the
munition* vs,is shipped to !' S
military personnel in Saudi
Arabia during tin? I'ersiun (lull
war. which laiim amid the ted
mil investigation into the rum
pam
Indicted were bdward I
(leoghegan. SI, hoard chair
man. ehle! exec nine director
and president from toil.I until
luiut. Nutting, a company offi
i er, and six other directors,
managers and supervisors
(ieoghegan vs as i barged in ID
of the l i counts of the indict
nient unsealed Monday If con
vit ted on all counts he would
t.ne up to 1.75 years m prison
and $ 7 million in fines,
('.eu/.tnan said
Nutting was (barged on four
i mints 111 June lDHH, the in
dictment alleged, he directed
Sooner employees to ship a do
lei live lot of fuses to the buy mg
command
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Compromise on civil rights bill sparks
anger in women, small businesses
WASHINGTON (Al’J Wumnn <nul business
groups simmered with angur over the bipartisan
agreement on civil rights Monday as tho Senate
grappled with how to cover its own workers un
der the bill's job protections
With the main disputes already settled, Senate
leaders hoped to have a vote on final passage
Tuesday alter working through amendments
One and perhaps more amendments were
planned to extend the bill's coverage to include
employees ol Congress
Sen Charles Grassley, K iowa, was pushing an
amendment that would give all Senate employees
the right to file job discrimination claims with the
Senate Ethics Committee, ami d unsatisfied, to
seek relief in federal court.
A bipartisan group of senators was pushing an
alternative plan that would cover Senate employ
ees not directly involved in legislation and policy
matte!s, while exempting those in policy posi
lions
As with earlier disputes on the civil rights bill,
tin; full Senate was left waiting while senators
met off tlie floor to try to resolve differences
President Bush and Senate leaders of both par
ties reached agreement late last week on a ( oin
promise version of the bill that appeared to re
solve the politically explosive issue of quotas
The strength of that agreement could be tested
if Sen Inn Wirlh, D Colo.. protends with his
plan to offer an amendment that would eliminate
tht! lull's fixed dollar limitation on damages that
could he awarded in oases of sexual dlscrimma
turn
Women's groups fiercely opposed those limits,
which Democrats said Hush insisted on as a con
dition of agreeing to the compromise The hill ex
pands the rights of victims of sexual harassment
and discrimination to sue, hut it would leave
those cases on unequal looting with victims of ra
cial discrimination, for whom limits would not
apply
Those women's groups continued to voice op
position to the limits, hut they appeared to lie re
luctantly accept mg the compromise with the
promise of Democratic leaders that they would
introduce a separate full to lift those damage lim
its The limits range from $50,000 to $.100,000,
depending on the si/e of the employer
"We re< ogni/e the improvements in the legisla
tion to restore the rights to redress lor sexual ills
crimination," said 1’alricia Ketlly. spokeswoman
for the National Women's Political Caucus
"However, we can t support a hill that does not
include lull equity for women "
business groups that had opposed the hill he
lore continued to do so, despite Hush's agree
meet, hut none held out serious hope of slopping
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