4 Search Warrants and Results in Pentagon Probe Released

NEW YORK — The government, in response to a court order, today released search warrants for three New York businesses and a consultant and documents describing material seized from them as part of the Pentagon procurement investigation.

The documents detail the reams of financial records, computer files, letters and other property seized during searches at Hazeltine Corp. in Greenlawn; Kane Paper Co. in Baldwin; the office of Dennis Mitchell, an employee of Unisys Corp., and the home of Charles Gardner, a consultant.

The papers were heavily edited to protect individuals and companies not previously named in court papers. This was a condition set by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman, who ordered the papers’ release at the request of Newsday.

The papers relating to the search of Mitchell’s office stated that investigators were looking for information “pertaining to schemes to defraud Unisys by diverting monies to individuals and business entities to illegally influence the defense contracting process.”

Among the documents seized at Kane Paper, which included searches of trash receptacles, were a “Florida condo file,” a “contribution file,” a “political file box” and a folder labeled “golf tournament 1984-87.”

The Kane papers indicated that investigators were looking for any documents dealing with Unisys, a major military contractor; Armtec Inc., a small Florida company that does business for Unisys, and a number of individuals, including Gardner, Mitchell, William Galvin, another private consultant, and Richard Seelmeyer, who was an aide to the late Rep. Joseph Addabbo and is now publisher of a military industry newsletter.

The Hazeltine search warrants and related documents showed that the government was looking for files relating to a military contract for the Secure Transceiver and Ancillaric Equipment program.