OFFICIALS CONVICTED
Stole Defence Funds W ZPA -Reuter—Copvrlahtt ALEXANDRIA (Virginia), May 23. Two farmer officials of the United States Defence Department have been convicted of conspiring to embezzle Government funds. They are expected to be sentenced in about a month. They are John Wylie, aged 58 a former head of the department’s budget and finance branch, and William Godel, aged 43, a former deputy director for management in the department’s advanced research projects agency. Wylie could be imprisoned for 40 years and fined 50,000 dollars, while Godel faces a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 20,000 dollars. Wylie was found guilty of embezzling 13,401 dollars and also of making a false claim for the expenditure of 5839 dollars.
Godel was convicted for making a false statement concerning a sum of 10,000 dollars for a secret research project in Vietnam.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30759, 25 May 1965, Page 19
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