The US Bureau of Industry & Security has updated their Major Case List (PDF).
Of note:
- On May 14, 2009, Joseph Piquet was sentenced 60 months in prison and two years of probation based on his role in a conspiracy to purchase high-tech, military-use electronic components (such as high power amplifiers for use in early warning radar) from a domestic corporation, and to then ship the items to Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China without first obtaining the required export licenses.
- On March 12, 2008, MTS Systems Corporation of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, pled guilty to two counts of Title 18 United States Code Section 1018, False Certification or Writing, in connection with MTS’ submission of two license applications to the Department of Commerce.
Total fines for these violations plus another 2006 export violation: $836,000
- On March 10, 2004, Thomas Campbell Butler, MD, a professor at Texas Tech University, was sentenced to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and criminal fines and restitution totaling more than $50,000 for export violations, false statements, theft, embezzlement, fraud, and mail and wire fraud.
Butler was arrested in January 2003 for falsely reporting to the FBI that 30 vials of bubonic plague bacteria that had been destroyed by Butler were missing and presumed stolen from his university laboratory.
An investigation into Butler’s report uncovered that Butler had earlier exported a related set of bubonic plague bacteria to Tanzania in September 2002 without the required licenses.
Total penalties: $87,400 and his export privileges were denied for a period of 10 years.
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