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 Newmarch Oliver Newmarch Major-General Sir Oliver Richardson Newmarch (1834–1920) was a senior British Indian Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary to the India Office. Born the son of Doctor Newmarch and Violet, daughter of Colonel Sherwood, Royal Artillery, Newmarch was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford. Newmarch was commissioned into the Bengal Staff Corps and posted to the 44th Native Infantry. He saw service during the Indian Mutiny. He was appointed Military Secretary to the India Office in 1889 and in that role was appointed KCSI in 1894. In 1858 he married Mary Isabella Parke and