'74 ARTICLE PLAYS PART IN REWALD TRIAL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: August 15, 1985
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MILWAUKEE SENTINEL (WI)
15 August 1985
'74 article
plays part in
Rewald trial
Special to The Sentinel
Hosolaiu, Hawaii - A 1974 article
In The Milwaukee Sentinel was In-
troduced in evidence Wednesday as
proof Ronald Rewald tried to raise
Investment capital In Hawaii under
false pretenses.
The author of the Sept. 9 article,
former Sentinel business reporter
Roger A. Stafford, is listed as a pros-
ecution witness In the trial of Rewald
gn 98 counts of fraud, tax evasion
and perjury.
Stafford, now vice president of
marketing at The Milwaukee Compa-
ny, is expected to testify later.
Stafford's article also is expected
to b* Used in & attempt to Prove One
of the perjury counts
Involving Rewald's claim that the
CIA told him in 1978 that it would
provide him with fake Marquette
University degrees as part of his
"cover."
Sunlin Wong, Rewald's Honolulu
partner in an admittedly phony in-
vestment company, testified Tuesday
that Rewald asked him in 1978 to
help raise $150,000 for his Honolulu
sporting goods operation.
Wong is now serving a two-year
federal prison sentence following his
guilty plea to mail and securities
fraud charges in the case.
Wong said Rewald gave him a
copy of The Sentinel article, saying,
"This should help you out in securing
the Investment."
,Th. 1974 article portrays Rewald
at a' successful businessman and ma-
jority owner of College Athletic Inc.,
a Milwaukee-based sporting goods
firm.
Two years after the article was
published, Rewald was convicted of
petty theft In Wisconsin In connec-
tion with a sporting goods franchise
fraud case and he and his company
went through bankruptcy.
Rewald is accused of later conceal-
Ing those facts from people who in-
vested In his Hawaii firm, Bishop,
Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham &
Wong.
Bishop, Baldwin was set up after
Rewald had started a small sporting
goods operation in Hawaii.
The Sentinel article also includes
Rewald's claims that he was a pro-
fessional football player and that he
had a business administration degree
from MU.
Rewald says that he worked for
the n Wisconsin in the 1960s,
infiltra sung student organizations on
college campuses.
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Wong said he d14 not know
what the National Srcurlty Ag-
ency was but deuced Pewald
would be In favor of hirini her
because of that background.
Wong was expected to be on
the stand throughout today as
questioning continues about his
utvolvement to the company.
He b sers'Ln a two?year Sen?
tence after pleading guilty to
mail and securities fraud to con-
nection with the collapse of
Bishop, Baldwin.
R.ewaid, who faces 98 tounU
of fraud, perjury and tax eva?
Sion, claims that the CIA set up
and ran the offices.
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