Ernest Keiser, the businessman who lured renegade...

Ernest Keiser, the businessman who lured renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson back to the United States, was convicted in White Plains, N.Y., of second-degree grand larceny and issuing a false financial statement. Keiser, 65, is to be sentenced Feb. 19. He was convicted of swindling $415,000 from New York investor John Farris in 1980 by falsely claiming to own 2,000 acres of land near Orlando, Fla., that he was going to develop. In 1982, Keiser helped the Justice Department lure Wilson from Libya with a guarantee of safety. Wilson was convicted of conspiracy and firearms violations in connection with weapons sales to Libya and for smuggling explosives to Libya.