King Trial Continues

Thu., Oct. 26, 1995

Compiled From Wire Services

Don King’s lawyer continued to question the credibility of a crucial government witness in the promoter’s federal mail fraud trial.

Joseph Maffia, King’s former controller, has testified in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that King told him to falsify training expenses for Julio Cesar Chavez in order to make an allegedly fraudulent $350,000 insurance claim when an injury to Chavez forced the cancellation of his fight against Harold Brazier on June 28, 1991.

Maffia said King directed him to pad the claim in order to recover part of a $736,000 advance the promoter made to Chavez on March 18, 1991.

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