LOS ANGELES : More Than $1 Million Raised to Aid Stacey Koon

Former Los Angeles Police Sgt. Stacey C. Koon, serving a prison term for the beating of Rodney G. King, has raised more than $1 million and possibly as much as $3 million through a direct-mail campaign, the campaign organizer said Monday.

The money will go to pay Koon’s legal bills and support his wife and five children, said Alfred Regnery, president of Virginia-based Regnery Publishing Co. The company, which published Koon’s book, “Presumed Guilty, the Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair,” launched the direct-mail campaign last year when Koon entered federal prison in Pleasanton to serve a 30-month sentence.

Koon and Officer Laurence M. Powell, both white, were convicted in a federal trial of violating the civil rights of King, a black motorist, during a March, 1991, confrontation videotaped by a bystander. A state court jury earlier had rendered not-guilty verdicts on Koon, Powell and two other officers, sparking four days of rioting in Los Angeles.