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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 5, 1990                   TAG: 9006050494
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short

MYSTERY-PLANE PILOT FACES 455 CHARGES

A lawyer rescued from the Atlantic with a gunshot wound after a mysterious, 800-mile flight down the East Coast in his private plane has been indicted on 455 counts of securities fraud and related charges.

A Nash County grand jury issued indictments Monday that totaled 2,695 counts. Indicted were Thomas Root, Sonrise Management Services, Telemedia Inc. and three other men identified as co-owners of the two businesses.

Root, already indicted on federal charges involving his work for Sonrise, drew national attention in July 1989 after he reported blacking out in the cockpit of his single-engine plane on a trip from Washington to Rocky Mount.

-Associated Press 


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