A former federal organized-crime prosecutor in Los angeles has pleaded guilty to three felony charges in a scandal involving death threats, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of fraud and the acceptance of cash payments from defendants. The former prosecutor, Andrew Pitt, 39, faces between 24 and 30 months in a federal prison. Last month Pitt filed a sworn statement admitting, among other things, that he had taken $98,000 from one infrmer facing criminal charges and $35,000 from another. He said he then recommended probation, instead of a prison sentence, for the first informer and repeatedly asked that the second informer be given additional time at large before reporting to prison. In addition Pitt admitted taking $33,000 from an illegal stock deal and transferr it to his own account. But Securities and Exchanges commission charged that Pitt also obtained at least $400,000 in illegal profits by manipulating stock in a company he controlled while serving as a prosecutor. And federal officials also charged that Pitt was associated with a group of stock swindlers who went to Montreal in 1995 with $350,000 to bribe people described in an indictment as "belived to be" Quebec government officials. A former assistant Los Angeles district attorney, Pitt was hired in 1988 as a prosecutor with a federal organized-crime task force The task force was merged the following year with the U.S. attorney's office. Pitt was the lead prosecutor in a high-profile case lining organized crime to the recording business. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps