Pocal Industries

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Pocal Industries is US arms company which has manufactured mortar training ammunition since 1981.[1]

The New York Times reported in 1983 that Shlomo and Chaim Zabludowicz, "own Pocal Industries, a Pennsylvania company set up in September 1981 to buy the patent rights to mortar training rounds and a small plant where the rounds are developed."[2]

In 1995, Pocal Industries gave $5,000 to the defence fund of Joseph M. McDade, a Republican congressman who was due to go on trial Sept. on charges of conspiracy, racketeering and acceptance of illegal gratuities from defense contracts seeking government business.[3]

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  1. Welcome to Pocal Industries, Inc., Pocial Industries, accessed 27 October 2011.
  2. Jeff Gerth, AIDE URGED PENTAGON TO CONSIDER WEAPONS MADE BY FORMER CLIENT, New York Times, 17 April 1983.
  3. Andrea Foster, MCDADE DEFENSE BRINGS IN MONEY FROM DOCTORS, LOBBYISTS, BUSINESS, States News Service, 14 June 1995.
  4. Pocal Industries, Pennsylvania Department of State.