The Region - News from March 28, 1986
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Two Southland men rigged bids on testing equipment in a scheme to defraud the Navy of $200,000, U.S. Atty. Robert Bonner charged in a civil complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Bonner said Donald B. Schneider, 63, of Arcadia, and Fritz Egger, 49, of Rancho Palos Verdes, once “key employees” of a test equipment firm in Torrance, secretly set up a rival firm and conspired to submit inflated bids from the two companies that “misled” the Navy into thinking they were competitive.
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