NATION : No Jail for Contra Fund-Raiser
U.S. District Judge Stanley Harris today sentenced public relations consultant Richard R. Miller to serve two years’ probation and perform 120 hours of community service for using a tax-exempt foundation to funnel private donations to Oliver L. North’s aid pipeline for the Nicaraguan rebels.
The sentence came one day after North, a former White House aide, was given a three-year suspended prison sentence, was fined $150,000 and was ordered to perform 1,200 hours of community service for misleading Congress about the covert aid operation.
Carl (Spitz) Channell, who with Miller helped raise more than $10 million for the Contras, is to be sentenced on Friday. Miller and Channell had pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government.
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