NATION IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Billie Sol Estes Faces Conspiracy Charges
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Billie Sol Estes, a confidant of President Lyndon B. Johnson who was convicted in a multimillion-dollar fertilizer swindle in the 1960s, was one of six defendants charged with plotting to steal and duplicate business secrets. “They were going to go into business against Loadcraft,” a manufacturer of container cargo trailers, Dist. Atty. Ronald Sutton said in Brady, Tex. Maximum penalties are 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, he said.
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