The Nation - News from Oct. 28, 1987
A Philadelphia man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell military equipment to Syria was sentenced to 20 months to five years in prison. Kevin Gilday, 37, told U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that he had acted because of financial interests, not because of pro-Arab ideology as the U.S. government alleged. Gilday pleaded guilty Sept. 11 to conspiring to sell aviation navigation equipment to Syria in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. It was never delivered.
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