The Region - News from Feb. 5, 1987
The owner of a photocopier supply company was sentenced in Los Angeles federal court to six months in prison and fined $256,000 on a charge of operating a boiler-room telephone solicitation scheme that netted more than $2 million. U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk sentenced M. L. Marks, 47, of Culver City to five years in prison, then suspended all but six months of the term. The judge also ordered Marks, owner of General Supply Systems and International Supply Systems, to provide $50,000 in restitution.
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