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Robert A. Ferrante was "the boss of Pyrotronics" at the same time that he owned a tiny savings and loan that was making $5 million in loans to the Anaheim fireworks company, a former chief executive of Pyrotronics Inc. testified on Thursday. Donald P. Crivellone said that Ferrante installed him as the top operating officer at Pyrotronics in March, 1985, and made other crucial management decisions even though documents show that Ferrante neither owned nor had any other control of the company.

Robert A. Ferrante was "the boss of Pyrotronics" at the same time that he owned a tiny savings and loan that was making $5 million in loans to the Anaheim fireworks company, a former chief executive of Pyrotronics Inc. testified on Thursday. Donald P. Crivellone said that Ferrante installed him as the top operating officer at Pyrotronics in March, 1985, and made other crucial management decisions even though documents show that Ferrante neither owned nor had any other control of the company.

Pyrotronics, the Anaheim fireworks company formerly owned by political corruption figure W. Patrick Moriarty, has filed a $2-million suit against eight former employees and a fireworks company they formed in Orange. The suit, filed Friday in Orange County Superior Court, alleges that the eight workers stole secret client lists from Pyrotronics Corp. and asks that their new employer, Red Dragon Fireworks Co., be prevented from using those lists.