The Region : Man Sentenced for Defense Kickback

A former purchasing agent for Hughes Aircraft Co. in El Segundo was sentenced by a Los Angeles federal judge to six months in a community treatment center after pleading guilty to taking a $5,323 cash kickback on a $106,000 defense contract for machine parts. U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. said he decided to place Joseph R. Canfield, 64, in a treatment center rather than a prison because of a heart ailment. Assistant U.S. Atty. David A. Katz said the Woodland Hills man was the last of 10 aerospace employees indicted in April for taking kickbacks on more than $1 million worth of defense contracts. The others received sentences ranging from six months to three years in prison. In sentencing Canfield, Hatter said his bribe-taking was a “crime against all the people of this nation.”