Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, July 13, 1990                   TAG: 9007130342
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                                LENGTH: Short

EX-CAPTAIN RAPPED FOR FRATERNIZATION

Vice Adm. Howard Thorsen ordered Cmdr. Albert Sganga, who earlier had been relieved of command of the Portsmouth-based cutter Northland, to pay half a month's salary as an additional penalty, said Lt. Cmdr. Paul Milligan, spokesman for the service's Atlantic Area Command.

Sganga, a 19-year veteran of the Coast Guard, gets $3,866.40 per month basic pay, and is the highest ranking officer in the Coast Guard to be disciplined for fraternization aboard a ship, Coast Guard officials said. Until losing his command of the 270-foot-long Northland, Sganga had been in charge of the second-largest class of vessel in the service.

Sganga and his second-in-command, Lt. Cmdr. Scot Addis, were reassigned to shore duty in late April and charged last week with fraternizing with two female enlisted crew members. Addis is expected to be court-martialed, Milligan said. No date has been set for the trial.

Milligan earlier had said the two fraternization cases were "distinctly separate incidents," which had been discovered at the same time coincidentally.

Addis faces charges of conduct unbecoming an officer, fraternization, adultery and making a false official statement, Milligan said.

- Associated Press