The State - News from Jan. 9, 1986

A Lockheed employee and a representative for a subcontractor on the Trident II missile project were sentenced to prison and fined following their bid-rigging convictions in San Jose. Frederick Ines Gordon, an engineer for the aerospace company, was ordered to spend 18 months in prison and fined $5,000. Mountain View businessman Edward Loeswick, who was hired by Edler Industries as its Lockheed representative at Gordon’s behest, was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $10,000. Prosecutors said the two fed inside information to Edler, bidding for contracts on the missile, and that Loeswick earned $113,000 in illegal commissions under the arrangement. Vernon Edler, president of the company, was the government’s key witness.