Coin Slot Magazine - #011 - 1975 - August [International Arcade Museum]
Tycoon Cornfeld Cleared
In Slot-AAachine Case
Financial tycoon Bernard
Comfeid has been acquitted
of charges of illegal
vestors
into a
ration,
possession
ma
February in Beverly Hills for
Hills
allegedly using an illegal box
on his phone. The box makes
it possible to make toll-free
calls.
of
chines in his
mansion.
two
slot
Beverly
Beverly Hills Municipal
^ourt Judge Leonard Wolf
dismissed the charges yester
day after defense attorney
Martin Klass argued the ma
chines
could
tyiihout money.
be
operated
Cornfeld, 47, who built In
Overseas
Services
multimillion corpo
was
arrested
last
At the time of the arrest,
the
FBI
agents
reportedly
saw the slot machines and
notified police.
Charges involving the box
still are pending in federal
court here.
Herald Examiner
August
27,
1975
Charges of illegally possessing two
slot machines in his Beverly HiM
mansion were dismissed against fi
nancier Bernie Comfeid. His attor*
ney, Martin Klass, successfully
argued before Municipal Judge Leon
ard Wolf that the case should 'be.,
dropped because the slot machines
did not require coins to be operated.
The charges were filed against Corn
feld after Beverly Hills police
searched his tome Feb. 5.
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