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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two San Fernando Valley men, ac cused of trying to bribe a city councilman and his field deputy in a zoning matter, have been released on $6,250 bail each. Police booked Constantine Kon topirakis, 44, Conago Park, and Stanley J. Moustakas, 38, Tar zana, Thursday on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit bribery. Councilman James B. Potter Jr. and his aide, John Harrison, told police the zoning matter involved a proposed property trade between an excavating contractor and a Russian Ortho dox Church. Police alleged Kontopirakis and Moustakas tried to get Pot ter to allow city permission for the church to erect a new mil lion-dollar building on Sherman Oaks property by the contrac tor, Clyde Wainwright. Authorities still sought Wain wright Thursday night for ques tioning. The church — St. Innocent Orthodox Church — filed appli cation Sept. 7, 1967, with the city for a conditional use permit. However, the request was de nied earlier this week by Manus O'Grady, associate zoning ad ministrator. O’Grady said the church was “incompatible with the neigh borhood.”” Harrison said the two accused men mentioned bribes of $2,000 for him and $4,000 for Potter. The Rev. Sergei Glagolev, pastor of St. Innocent, said he knows nothing of the alleged bribe attempt, adding “the ar rest of the two men was shock ing to say the least.” He said neither man was a member of the church. A preliminary hearing on the arrests will be held in Division 40 of the Municipal Court Tues day morning.
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Pomona Progress Bulletin
Pomona, California, US
Fri, Feb 02, 1968
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