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U.S. District Judge Earl B. Gilliam on Monday set an Aug. 5 date for a hearing in the cases of 13 men and two corporations indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of racketeering, bribery and fraud involving the award of a $24.5-million county contract to Telink, of Anaheim, for a microwave telephone system.
In announcing the indictments in November, San Diego County Dist. Atty. Edwin Miller called Telink “the most massive fraud and public corruption scheme ever perpetrated against the County of San Diego.”
The indictments--which named two former county employees, Telink and its officials, and Burnup & Sims, Telink’s parent company--described the use of cocaine, prostitutes and bribes in the alleged effort to influence the county’s decision to award the telephone contract.
Telink’s contract was canceled by the Board of Supervisors in early 1983.
Abraham Stein, the highest-ranking former county official named in the indictments, will undergo trial this month in Yuma, Ariz., on separate charges alleging that he conspired to import heroin from Nepal.
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