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| i aN SI8AOUS 40 BOURYD spuow pues Anpung URAASUBOg WEtem a dates “ung, “10g papuasxy 578) 0. . fs "ZS Ol Zy MO} ‘GU CURALASUURYG WISER a _. @2}Bs0dWO, WeMo? . (Continued from Page A-1) Probst, a lawyer from Pine Bluff, Ark., who was a former key aide to the ‘late crime-fighting Sen. John - McClellan, rk. Probst, indicted last week by a fede rand jury in Little counts of bank robbery. arson conspiracy. He is scheduled to tes- "tify before a grand jury in Washing- ton next week. _ Robbery Investigation Focuses On FBI Aide . Arkansas, Sources said Probst at one point was cooperating with federal pros- ecutors here in their probe of the ' bank robbery ring in return for reduced charges in the case. Bu prosecutors decided to ask for in- dictments of Probst on all the charges after they learned he was the probe to his friend in the FBI, sources passing information about Probst, a longtime friend of the _ Said. eee age at eet TT LAKE THIS, \V sven BEITER 2X: _ Abscam, : Upheld ::. Pp ytd. , "NEW YORK (UPI) — A federal — appeals court has upheld the: At |. scam convictions of four former . gressman, sayin s ‘ a aught in the act on v deo- two-year FBI probe... the -The 3-0 ruling yesterday by -the* 2nd US. Circuit Court of Appegis« was the first by a federal appeais* court involving any of the sevtb Gt Baerare =) } Sade \ t * ~e e- official under investigation, Is When the Arkansas indictments charged with receiving money he against Probst and the three other new was stolen from seven ban men were announced in Little Rock, in tive states and with conspiracy'to U.S. Attorney George Proctor said Probst was slated to appear before bers of Congress convicted ase ; result of the investigation. ~-:*’ - ‘The court upheld the convictigns. ud an insurance company. through claims for a deliberately set restaurant fire. * icjal_is suspected of having directed or helped plan the bank robberies, which involved banks in Huber Heights and Ga- _hanna, Ohio; Springfield and Car- ‘ thage, Mo.; Greensboro, N.C.; Southaven, Miss.; and Olathe, Kan. ' charges and is awaiting trial next month. He faces a possible prison Sentence of up to 115 years and '. $50,000 in fines if convicted on all | the charges. ' -Three other Pine Bluff men also are charged with conspiracy in con- _ hection with the arson case. As a legislative aide and former — chief administrative assistant to McClellan in the mid-1960s, Probst helped author major anti-crime leg- | . islation then pending in the Senate. He also was a campaign aide to former Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-~ , _Ark., and Sen. Dale Bumpers, D- Ark., a former governor of) ‘4 et a . Pag & bo UWS Stet nee mene aha Ap Cami ereE emma mre, Slated ; f New the grand jury in Washington to E New York, Frank Thompson of New testify on a “national security” |. j Jersey, and Michael Myers.and Rass, matter. . ; § a on : Scurces said the “national securi- ty” matter in question is the sus- pected involvernent of the FBI official in the bank robberies.AlL. . % \; though Probst is_expected to be Probst is free on $50,000 bor iven_ immunity from prosecution after pleading innocent to the ‘2 ed on his testimony to the gran , Sources said it is not clear whether he has decided to cooperate with investigators now that he him- self has been indicted. “We're a witness only and not a. target of the Washington investiga- tion,” Probst’s lawyer, Bart Mullis ' of Pine Bluff, sai interview. ., He said he had been instructed by prosecutors not to say anything more about the probe. in a telephone GET GOING with Gilbert Lovet His new Go Guide is available in : The Press public service depart- _ ment, “Woe” for only $3. rw NN RAEI SU SE: aid, Ae Sg ONE TE Tt te eens " 7 Oe eee make Pennsylvania. ay a The court, however, ordered °2 retrial on a conflict of interest count against Murphy and lowered fines against him from $20,000 to $10,006. “The four congressmen ‘were caught on videotape in the very act f committing federal crimes, Grote Judge don Newman forthe court “The condu —- ‘the (Abscam investigation, though subject ..of some criticism, affords no basis Se “ yejecting the convictions,” he sajq. - Newman noted his ap dealt lefendants _ only with trials of the ; bscam investigation. -_- sat ~:~ In other Abscam trials involving “members of Congress, former. Sen. ison Williams, D-N.J., and for- mer Reps. enrette of. South Carolina and Richard Kelly of Flory -<ida also were found guilty of politi: ‘eal corruption. ©. --.2° ccwinad po ater peer pee eng ey enue en