Oliver North shredding government documents related to these activities at William Casey's suggestion when the Iran-Contra scandal became public. He also testified that Robert McFarlane had asked him to alter official records to delete references to direct assistance to the Contras and that he had helped. North was tried in 1988. He was indicted on 16 felony counts, and on May 4, 1989, he was initially convicted of three: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and ordering the destruction of documents through his secretary, Fawn Hall. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard
Oliver Schmidt (engineer) Oliver Schmidt (engineer) Oliver Schmidt (born 1969) is an engineer and former Volkswagen AG executive, who in 2017 was sentenced to seven years of prison due to his involvement in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. After studying mechanical engineering in Hannover, Schmidt was employed by Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg. At the age of 35 Schmidt was transferred to the USA, where he from 2012 oversaw VW's emissions office in Michigan. In January 2017 while returning to Germany from a vacation Schmidt was arrested in Florida, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. In December a