INDUCED PERJURY OF WITNESS
Wartime Activities Inquiry
(Rec. 9.30.) WASHINGTON, March 15. Major-General Bennett E. Meyers, aged 52, a former Air Force procurements officer, was sentenced to-day to a minimum of 20 months’ and a maximum of five years’ imprisonment on charges of inducing a former business associate. Bleriot Lamarre, to lie under oath to a Senate Committee* investigating Meyer’s wartime operation of an aircraft parts company from which the Government alleged that lie received more than .150,000 dollars. A Federal Court jury last Friday found Meyers guilty on all three charges of the indictment. The maximum sentence that, could he imposed was 30 years. Meyer’s attorneys announced that he would appeal. Meyers, who is now retired from the army, was deprived of his military honours as a result of the Senate' committee inquiry last year. Lamarre testified at the trial that Meyers persuaded him to deny falsely at the Senate inquiry that Meyers received 150,000 dollars in wartime payments from the Aviation Eleectric Corporation, which Meyers secretly owned. Lamarre has pleaded guilty to perjury charges and awaits sentence.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 133, 17 March 1948, Page 3
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