OTHER NEWS - Dec. 12, 1995

Ex-Hasbro Exec Makes Plea: A former vice president at the Pawtucket, R.I., firm pleaded no contest to taking $3 million in bribes from a company that shipped the toy maker’s products. Israel Laudon, 70, of Warren, R.I., was sentenced to nine months’ home confinement by Superior Court Judge Joseph Rodgers Jr. He was also given a 63-month suspended sentence with probation, and paid $250,000 in fines and taxes. Laudon’s scheme was disclosed in March 1993 when the former owners of H.P. Leasing and Peck Leasing, trucking companies that had been making payoffs since 1980, called Hasbro Inc. and told executives about the bribes.