The Nation - News from March 17, 1987
U.S. District Judge Prentice Marshall in Chicago sentenced two businessmen to a year’s probation after they pleaded guilty to lying to the U.S. Customs Service about a shipment of spare parts that wound up in the hands of the Iranian navy. After reaching an agreement with prosecutors, William H. Fowler, 50, of Evanston and George Veto, 51, of Chicago each pleaded guilty last month to a single charge of falsifying customs records, officials said. Prosecutors dropped charges of unlicensed exportation and plotting to export marine diesel parts to Iran in violation of federal law.
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