2 Sentenced for Fraud Involving B-1 Bomber

An Encino aerospace executive and a partner, who were convicted of defrauding the government of $1.4 million for work on the B-1 bomber, were sentenced Tuesday to detention in a halfway house.

Joseph Kasparoff, 55, who operated two Montebello companies that worked on the bomber for Rockwell International, was sentenced to five years in prison. However, U.S. District Judge Robert M. Takasugi suspended all but six months of Kasparoff’s sentence, which he will be allowed to serve in a halfway house.

In addition to causing losses of $1.4 million by falsely billing the government for excess work on the project, Kasparoff was convicted of evading what will amount to $3 million in taxes, including penalties, from 1983 to 1986.

Co-defendant Harold Geyer, 71, of Brea was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in the scheme, but will serve only 90 days in a halfway house, Assistant U.S. Atty. Steven G. Madison said.