pany, Westboume Communications Ltd., which helped companies climb aboard the surging Internet tide. Kevin Maxwell and one of his father's top hands, Larry Trachtenberg, 47, who also was acquitted in the criminal trials, eventually got a major stake in Telemonde Inc. last year, a global telecommunications company ba

Kevin Maxwell. 36, son of the late media baron Robert Maxwell, was acquitted on Friday - along with his brother Ian, 39, and fonner company director Larry Trachtenberg - after a trial lasting 131 days. It was alleged the trio had fraudulently used L122m of pensioners' money. The trial is estimated to have cost mor

aud Thursday. Ian Maxwell, 36, and Kevin, 33 appeared in a London court. They were released after posting a combined bail in excess of $I million. Larry Trachtenberg, a former director of the company that handled the Maxwell empire's pension funds, was also charged. Both Trachtenberg and Kevin Maxwell face severa

belonging to the pension funds as collateral for bank overdrafts to help prop up the Maxwell companies. On trial alongside the Maxwell brothers are Larry Trachtenberg. who was a director of various Maxwell companies, and Robert Bunn, fonner finance director of the main public company in the Maxwell empire. Maxwell

evin Maxwell, 36, son of the late media baron Robert Maxwell, was acquitted on Friday - along with his brother Ian, 39, and former company director Larry Trachtenberg - after a trial lasting 131 days. It was alleged the trio had fraudulently used L122m of pensioners' money. The trial is estimated to have cost mor