He was convicted on 12 counts of corruption in 1993 after he took bribes from arms manufacturers to set up defence contracts.
coat of arms | Industry | industry | Recording Industry Association of America | Australian Recording Industry Association | Birmingham Small Arms Company | Coat of arms | Coat of Arms | Cardiff Arms Park | Financial Industry Regulatory Authority | Pulp and paper industry | College of Arms | Chemical industry | Remington Arms | pharmaceutical industry | Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry | Hollywood Arms | film industry | Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom) | Department of Trade and Industry | Bureau of Plant Industry | British Phonographic Industry | Arms and Sleepers | arms | A Farewell to Arms | Winchester Repeating Arms Company | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | Serjeant-at-Arms | Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives | Robson Arms |
In The Gold Coast (1988) we learn about the Southern California of 2027, a dystopian extension of today's Los Angeles and car-oriented architecture, mobility and life-style: "an endless sprawl of condos, freeways and malls." The book describes the life of 27-year-old Jim McPherson, who finds himself caught up in literary and academic interests, anti-weapons-industry terrorism, drugs, parties and casual sex.
Among the accused were the Nationalist Socialist leaders Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess, the diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop, the munitions maker Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and 18 other military leaders and civilian officials.
After the war he remained one of the engineers working for the Polish arms industry, most notably the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe company.