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.