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Aalice.449 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!alice!sjb Thu Jan 28 18:07:36 1982 Indictments Handed Down Indictments against three executives and two firms have been handed down by Grand Juries charging that they conspired to defraud the government on construction costs for the space shuttle. One company, Mayfair Construction Co., has already pleaded guilty, faces a $10,000 fine for its actions, but has reached an agreement with the Justice Department under which it won't be charged with any criminal dealings with the other two companies, Capital Communication Corp. and New World Construction Co., or with the three executives, Phillip W. Akwa, Arthur L. Boschen, and James T. White, Jr., in return for its guilty plea.

Mayfair had been given four contracts totaling $13 million to build ground support for the STS program. Capital worked jointly with Mayfair, while Mayfair subcontracted New World. The defendants ``hid their profit-sharing arrangements from NASA'' and planned to inflate costs, hours, and labor to NASA.

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