Tipster Says He Lied About Plane Crash
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A former government informant pleaded guilty to five counts of perjury, admitting he made up a story that a government drug agent allowed a bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killing 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. Lester Coleman, 54, of Pensacola, Fla., faces up to five years in prison and a $1.25-million fine. Coleman told U.S. District Judge Thomas Platt in Uniondale, N.Y., that he lied, in part, to get even with the DEA for firing him.