The Region - News from Aug. 15, 1985
The operators of a defunct Van Nuys-based travel firm pleaded no contest to charges that they had improperly spent money deposited by more than 85 students who were planning European trips during the summer of 1984. Under terms of the plea in Los Angeles Municipal Court, defendants Charles D. Marinoff, 41, of Sherman Oaks and Howard M. Newton, 35, of Glendale, who owned National Student Travel Center, agreed to pay back $113,000 owed the victim-clients. The two men, who both pleaded no contest to 10 of 183 counts filed by the city attorney’s office, were also sentenced to three years’ probation by court Commissioner Barry D. Kohn.
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