The State - News from Feb. 28, 1985
A Santa Clara man who reportedly testified before a federal grand jury in the case of James Harper, who was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to sell missile secrets to Poland, failed to appear in San Francisco federal court for his own sentencing on filing false income tax returns. Attorney William Butler said John Stouffer had not been seen for almost three weeks and called the disappearance mysterious. U.S. District Judge Spencer Williams ordered Stouffer’s $25,000 bail forfeited. Stouffer once employed Harper for a firm representing manufacturers of electronic components.
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