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Last week a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment accusing ten persons of conspiring to blow up the factory-and there was not a Weatherman among them. Quite the contrary. The first on the list of the indicted was none other than Charles D. Moeller, 48, president of both Sponge Rubber Products, a division of Grand Sheet Metal Products Co., and of their parent company, Ohio Decorative Products Inc. of Spencerville, Ohio. If convicted, Moeller could be sent to prison for a total of 60 years on six counts...
...offices had helped unravel the crime. Ironically, it was the red-herring reference to the Weatherman that brought the FBI into the case at the outset. The alleged conspiracy sounds something like a Mannix plot on TV-with a few Fellini-esque wrinkles. According to the indictment, Moeller paid $50,000 in company funds to David Bubar, 47, a trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately a director...
...Profits. Two weeks before the bombing, according to his brother John, a minister in Cheshire, Conn., Bubar "got vibrations" of an impending explosion. The Government contends that the psychic preacher indulged in a bit of self-fulfilling prophecy: Bubar allegedly paid out part of Moeller's money to Peter Betres, 54, a Butler, Pa., hotelkeeper who in turn paid off a gallery of other suspects. Thus recruited, the arson team bought dynamite, detonating material and 24 drumfuls of gasoline. Then they gathered at the plant on the day of the crime, together with Bubar, who arranged to let them...
Federal authorities, anxious to minimize any prejudicial publicity, have so far not revealed their theory of the crime's motive. The signs seem to point to old-fashioned insurance fraud. Moeller bought Sponge Rubber Products' manufacturing operations and inventories last year from the B.F. Goodrich Co., which had found the company's profits unacceptably low. Shortly thereafter, he lost a $5 million Sears, Roebuck account after jacking up prices too abruptly, then lost more business after severely tightening credit terms for customers. A day after Moeller's arrest, Sponge Rubber Products' attorneys filed an insurance...
Brandt arrived in Boston yesterday afternoon on a German Air Force jet, accompanied by an entourage which includes Kurt Birrenbach, an official in the Christian Democratic Party, and Alex Moeller, Brandt's Foreign Minister of Finance...