The Nation - News from April 7, 1989

Two suspended executives of Teledyne Industries Inc., on trial on conspiracy and bribery charges, denied before a jury that they knew a company consultant was funneling payoffs to a senior Navy engineer. George Kaub, contracts vice president for the firm’s electronics division, said he never doubted the credentials of consultant William Parkin--even when Parkin proposed taking an illegal contingency fee for helping the firm land a $24-million electronics contract. Eugene Sullivan, a former controller of Teledyne Electronics, also said “absolutely not” when his defense lawyer asked whether Parkin discussed paying bribes on the day he was hired in 1985. Kaub, 51, Sullivan, 58, and Sullivan’s successor, Dale Schnittjer, 44, are charged in a scheme that already has led to guilty pleas by six individuals, Teledyne Industries of Newbury Park and the Hazeltine Corp. of Long Island.