REWALD'S MARQUETTE DEALINGS AIRED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00494R001100710132-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 132
• Publication Date: September 11, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Rewald's Marquette
Dealings Aired
By Charles Memminger
Star-Bulletin Writer
Ronald Rewald became an in-
stant "graduate" of one of -the
country s top law schools for
only $10.
At least that is what the gov-
ernment wants the jury in Re-
wald's federal fraud trial to be-
lieve.
A Marquette University offi-
cial yesterday described to a,
federal court jury how Rewald
apparently sent $10 to the uni-
versity's Alumni Association in
1978 requesting a replacement
membership card for the Law
Alumni Association.
That card did not come, but
Marquette's Alumni Association
did keep Rewald's $10 as a dona-
tion and put his name on the
university s alumni list. That
alumni association then appar-
ently provided Rewald's name
and address to the Marquette
Law School Alumni Association
which began including Rewald
as a 1964 graduate.
The only problem was that Re-
wald never attended Marquette
University, much less graduated
from the law school.
BUT REWALD displayed -
first in his Milwaukee sporting
goods business office and later
in the plush Honolulu offices of
Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dilling-
ham & Wong - diplomas from
Marquette University. He at
times claimed to be a graduate
of the business school, law
school and even told the CIA
that he held a doctorate from
"M.I.T."
Actually, Rewald put in a few
years at Milwaukee Technical
Institute but never graduated.
Rewald is charged with fraud.
tax evasion and perjury. He is
accused of bilking investors out
of some $22 million. The govern
ment claims that Rewald is at
tempting to use minor ties with
the CIA as justification for tak-
ing money from Investors and
spending it.
Rewald claims he was an
undercover CIA agent and that
the CIA set up and ran his
company. Rewald's attorneys
claim the CIA provided Rewald
with diplomas from Marquette
as part of his cover. The CIA
denies that, although it admits
Rewald provided telephone and
telex backstopping for a few CIA
agents operating overseas.
A WITNESS from the CIA
printing office previously testi-
fied that the CIA did not make
the diplomas Rewald had in of-
fices. The CIA graphics specialist
said the documents were poorly
done.
Alfred G. Eberle Jr., executive
director of alumni relations at
Marquette, said yesterday that
Rewald's name appeared on a
number of alumni lists, but said
it apparently stemmed from a
letter Rewald wrote in 1978.
In that letter, Rewald said, he
was returning a Law Alumni As-
sociation membership card and
requested a new card. He en-
closed $10.
Several days later the universi-
ty wrote back, thanking Rewald
for his "gift of $10" and en-
closed brochures on the alumni
group.
Rewald responded some days
later saying that he still wanted
a law alumni card. Rewald's let-
ter from Honolulu was written
on stationery with the letter-
head: "Oldenburg, Rewald &
Walsh." The script letterhead
gave the appearance that Re-
wald was a member of a law
firm.
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