Ex-Northrop Manager Sentenced: A former Northrop plant...
Ex-Northrop Manager Sentenced: A former Northrop plant manager was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $10,000 for falsifying tests on nuclear-armed cruise missiles destined for the Air Force. Assistant U.S. Atty. William Fahey said the false results by the defense giant created “a very big and serious question mark” about the accuracy of the missiles and forced the Air Force to run its own tests on 200 of them. In sentencing Clarence Gonsalves, 62, the one-time manager at Northrop plants in El Monte and Pomona, 9th U.S. Circuit Court Judge Pamela Rymer imposed the maximum penalty allowed.
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