NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Former Director of Wedtech Sentenced

W. Franklyn Chinn, a former director of the defunct Wedtech Corp., was sentenced in New York to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to filing a false statement with the Small Business Administration. Under the plea agreement, Chinn is expected to be released on parole after serving a third of his term. The collapse of the Bronx military contractor became a scandal that reached to Congress and the Ronald Reagan White House because it won huge government contracts under a program that made minority-owned businesses eligible for such contracts without competitive bidding.