EX-HUD AIDE, OTHERS CONVICTED

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 6, 1993                   TAG: 9301060131
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO   
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
EX-HUD AIDE, OTHERS CONVICTED
A federal jury on Tuesday found a one-time top aide to former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel Pierce and two other men guilty of offering gratuities to HUD officials.
But the jurors acquitted defendants Lance Wilson, who was Pierce's executive assistant in the early 1980s; Texas developer Leonard E. Briscoe; and Maurice David Steier, an Omaha, Neb., lawyer, of more serious bribery, mail fraud and conspiracy charges.
The verdict ended the first trial to come out of the HUD influence-peddling scandal during the Reagan administration.
Wilson was convicted on one count of giving a gratuity to then-Deputy Assistant HUD Secretary DuBois Gilliam in September 1986. Briscoe, of Fort Worth, and Steier were convicted on two counts each of giving gratuities to Gilliam.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB