MONEY, POLO AND SEX STORIES TOLD AT REWALD'S TRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605490067-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: September 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HONOLULU ADVERTISER (HI)
6 September 1985
Money, polo and sex stories
told at 'Reii~dld's trial
at1Yra wrwbt
The Ronald Rewald trial moved
away trap .the CIA yaeurday and
Each 10 money, polo des and sex.
Rewald contends the rINreu
intertwbW with
nextricably bemuse his lavl, spending
he i
was part of his CIA cover tr a
wWt ly businessman. ,
He is on trial on federal charges at
ply, fraud and tax efaslott.? ti .
Advertising executive Ken 1tders
testified yesterday that different
fir octal statiments be prepared at
Rewald's xgquest for the tear 1881
showed the company claimed $1,i bil-
lion in assets in one versos and 012S
million In. a later version.
It wasn't his yob to queetbn the
chairman of the baerd, Rewald, Sand-
ers said.
"I was Not a proofreader."
Sao" staieat e lost
~the
o awn ~,,Rant to
ARewl140 thro" the ad
apney .4indw dAU ;21~s owl
ejsrm' Luanda Gaidtama of
Indonesia testified he lost close to
$400,000 in Rewaid's Bishop Baldwin
Rewald Dillingham & Wong. He
denied there was any relationship be.
tween his investment and Blabo~
8aldwin's research on how he could
obtain a U.S. vies.
Stable owner Bud Gibson testified
that Rewald spent over 1190,000 on
polo lessons and related services,
ewe ttro~i he was so allergic to
hones he glad to weer dgloves when to be afraid
of them When dewald -st rt+ed his
lessons, Gibson said. he rated a minus
one On a scale of ten. When to finish-
ed, he rated asr+o.
But Rewald did mingle tluiough
polo with internatbnal Jud-
int Sultan of Drunil Mid
arlier, construction contractor
_Felix .,Weyle testified -ltew ld "*is
pleased with ? remote?contrdlled
$8,000 w all with
mind AM
' built as Wt eta Swim-
wow
or
Rpe~wald~ even ph white
saka
whichiAean W.a ui into
pa o ,000. Weyle
said.
Former legal secretary Kathy Subi-
ca of Kona testified y She re-
ceived $8,550 in Bishop ldwin
checks from Rewald, including a
$2,000 loan, after agraeint to be his
"companion" for $1,600 a mont>t.
She, like another legal be-
fore her, testified that beer 1atloa-
s with Rewaal started alter he
tad ? h er to Arthur'$, 3 downtown
nolulu restaurrint. for lunch.
She said the wan paid when she
bad sex with him four times at a Har-
bor ,Square- apartment ~
was paid on a number crotlt~t . ao 0aa!
lions when they did not have sex be-
cauIe he said he had to go to business
meetings instead
Asked by Rewald attorney Michael
Levine, the federal public defender,
why she got as many as a dozen
checks when there was no sex, Subi.
ca said she had told Rewald she need-
ed help because "I have four kids."
"I don't think I was paid to snake
sex." she said. "He was just a good
guy'..
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