Jury Fails Again to Reach Verdict in Defense Case

A federal jury deliberated 12 hours Tuesday but failed for a second day to reach a verdict in the trial of three executives of Teledyne Electronics accused of scheming with a company consultant to bribe a Navy contracting official.

U.S. District Judge Richard Williams sent the jury home at 9:40 p.m. after forewoman Elizabeth Teller indicated the panel had yet to reach a consensus in the first trial stemming from the government’s massive investigation of Pentagon procurement fraud.

The jurors deliberated nearly eight hours Monday, and on Tuesday court sources said the panel listened to tape recordings of wiretapped phone conversations between the defendants and company consultant William L. Parkin.

Several Guilty Pleas

During the trial, the defense asserted that suspended Teledyne executives George H. Kaub, 50, Eugene R. Sullivan, 58, and Dale Schnittjer, 44, were kept in the dark about the bribery scheme that has already led to guilty pleas from Parkin, three others and the company itself.

Each of the suspended executives of the company, a subsidiary of Teledyne Industries Inc. of Newbury Park, Calif., was tried on charges of conspiracy, bribery and fraud for allegedly scheming to rig the 1987 award of a Navy electronics contract worth up to $24 million. In all, the defendants were tried on a total of 25 felony counts.

During five days of testimony, prosecutors played three hours of tapes of wiretapped conversations and called as government witnesses all four figures who pleaded guilty--Parkin, former Teledyne marketing representative Michael Savaides, former Navy engineer Stuart E. Berlin and California consultant Fred H. Lackner.