Gaithersburg businessman Aris Mardirossian, a political activist
who, along with two of his companies, has plowed thousands of dollars
into local and state campaigns, was fined the maximum of $3,000
yesterday for violating the state election law during the 1986 race
for Montgomery County executive.
Mardirossian pleaded no contest to the charge that he had
financed several political advertisements published by an
unregistered political committee supporting the candidacy of Sidney
Kramer for county executive and opposing Kramer's opponent, council
member David L. Scull. Kramer defeated Scull in the Democratic
primary and then was elected last November.
Mardirossian's companies, Global ...