Two Indicted in TV Fraud
Two Los Angeles businessmen were indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles Thursday on charges that they used a phony Dun & Bradstreet credit rating to purchase $1 million worth of television sets and shipped most of the items to South America without paying for them.
Michael E. Bass, 27, of Beverly Hills and Sol Spiegler, 44, believed to be living in Israel, were indicted on charges of conspiracy, interstate transportation of stolen goods and mail and wire fraud.
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