Both OPM and OPA showed their teeth last week, for the first time got noncompliant businessmen up on charges.
OPM's bad boy was a violator of priorities, a Chicagoan of undisclosed identity. Charge: he had obtained a "considerable quantity" of aluminum for defense use through preference ratings, had instead supplied it to old & good customers for non-defense purposes. After his day in court, behind closed doors, OPMites retired to weigh his degree of willfulness.
On their decision depended a precedent-making penalty. The alternatives: 1) publication of his name and the facts (which...
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