The Region - News from Oct. 21, 1986

A former buyer for a computer manufacturing firm who admitted accepting $49,086 in kickbacks from defense subcontractors was sentenced to six months in a community treatment center and fined $50,000. Frank Joseph Mento, 58, of Covina was also sentenced to five years probation, and Los Angeles U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson warned Mento that he would consider failure to pay the $50,000 fine a violation of probation. Mento, former supervisor of purchasing for Calcomp in Anaheim, was arrested by a federal task force investigating kickbacks on defense subcontracts in Southern California. He was accused of accepting money from a sales representative for suppliers who obtained subcontracts from Calcomp in exchange for the payoff.