OTHER NEWS - April 18, 1996

Test Falsification Draws $6.8-Million Settlement: Air Industries Corp., a Garden Grove manufacturer that admitted last year to shipping millions of sometimes-flawed aircraft fasteners to government and civilian customers, has agreed to pay $6.8 million to the federal government and two former employees to settle a federal whistle-blower suit. The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said the check was delivered this week. The civil settlement brings to almost $10 million the total paid by Air Industries since it pleaded guilty in September to related federal felony mail fraud charges in the case. An attorney for Air Industries said the company did not admit civil liability in the settlement. Company executives would not comment.