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
George Oliver (politician) 1923, and during the Labour government he seconded a motion calling for a national minimum wage. He also supported exemption from entertainments duty for charitable entertainments. After the Labour government lost a vote of no confidence, Oliver was again re-elected in the 1924 general election. He had determined to retrain as a trade union lawyer, and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1927. Shortly after he persuaded the Home Secretary to halt the planned hanging of one of his constituents who had been convicted of murder. In March 1930 Oliver initiated a debate on the development