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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 6, 1990                   TAG: 9006060564
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

MYSTERY-PLANE PILOT ENTERS GUILTY PLEAS

Thomas Root, the lawyer whose mysterious Atlantic Ocean plane crash last year came amid a probe of his law practice, faces up to 35 years in prison and $1.25 million in fines on his guilty plea to felony charges of misrepresenting clients.

Root, an Alexandria, Va., communications attorney, pleaded guilty to five felony counts in federal court Tuesday. The charges involved clients who were seeking broadcast licenses from the Federal Communications Commission.

He was indicted Monday by a grand jury in North Carolina on 455 counts of securities fraud and other charges.

-Associated Press

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