From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!leichter Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: You can't trust anyone these days... Article-I.D.: yale-com.513 Posted: Fri May 14 14:12:23 1982 Received: Sat May 15 03:58:53 1982 Expires: Fri May 21 14:12:23 1982 >From the New York Times, 13 May 82: Flash Gordon Writer Sentenced to Jail Since 1951, long before men made the leap into space, Daniel Barry has been writing and drawing the Flash Gordon comic strip. "The scientist's job," he told an interviewer in 1969, "is to get man into space and onto the planets. Mine is to presume he is already there and to carry on with the uses and misuses of the accomplish- ments" Last Tuesday in Federal Court in Bridgeport, Conn., Mr. Barru \\\(Barry) was sentenced to one year in jail and fined $10,000 for income tax evasion after pleading guilty to the charge of not having filed a return in 1978. Mr. Barry, 59 years old, had been charged with four counts of not \\\ tax evasion for not having filed from 1975 through 1978. Under plea bargaining agreement, the first three charges were dropped and Mr. Barry pleaded guilty to the fourth count, for which he received the maximum sentence. In passing sentence, Magistrate Thomas P. Smith said paying taxes was "a fundamental obligation of all citizens" and hoped the prison term and fine would be a deterrant to others. Mr. Barry, formerly of South Kent, Conn., now lives in Sarasota, Fla. He is due to start serving his sentence June 4. "Nothing's going to happen to Flash Gordon," said Bill Yates, the comics editor of King Features Syndicate, which distributes the strip. "Being in jail doesn't preclude Dan's doing the strip." -- Jerry