Posted on 11/02/2019 3:06:58 PM PDT by ransomnote
Department of Justice
Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez for the Middle District of Florida announces the return of an indictment today of four individuals, including two Chinese nationals, an active-duty United States Navy officer, and his wife, on charges relating to a conspiracy to unlawfully smuggle military-style inflatable boats, with Evinrude MFE military outboard motors, to the People’s Republic of China. The Navy officer and two other defendants have also been charged with conspiring to violate firearms law, and the Navy officer has been charged with an additional firearms-related offense and with making false official statements.
The four defendants charged in the indictment are:
Fan Yang, 34, a naturalized citizen of the United States and Lieutenant in the United States Navy residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Yang Yang, 33, wife of Fan Yang, and a naturalized citizen of the United States residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Ge Songtao, 49, a citizen and resident of the People’s Republic of China; and Zheng Yan, 27, a citizen and resident of the People’s Republic of China.
The defendants were arrested on Oct. 17, 2019, and are currently detained.
All four defendants have been charged with conspiring to submit false export information and to fraudulently attempt to export articles from the United States. Additionally, Yang Yang, Ge Songtao, and Zheng Yan have been charged with causing the submission of false and misleading information into the U.S. Automated Export System, and fraudulently attempting to export seven vessels and eight engines. If convicted for conspiracy or for the submission of false export information, the charged defendants each face a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. If convicted on the attempted-smuggling charge, the defendants each face a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
Fan Yang, Yang Yang, and Ge Songtao are charged with other offenses as well. All three have been charged with conspiring to violate laws prohibiting an alien admitted under a nonimmigrant visa from possessing a firearm and prohibiting the transfer of a firearm to a nonresident. Fan Yang has also been charged with making a false statement to a firearms dealer, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment, and with making false official statements in his application for a security clearance, which carries a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment.
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.
This case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security; and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael Coolican and Heather Schmidt, Senior Trial Attorney, Counterintelligence and Export Section, U.S. Department of Justice.
Why is the Navy officer being tried in civilian court? He should be court martial-ed and given the max...which,I’ll wager,is death under the UCMJ.
Hopefully, both traitor yangs will be keel-hauled. Creeps.
Uh, not quite— quite a bit more, and US military mil spec for sale to our military. Computerized, near dead silent motors for spec-ops boat insertions. The Brits have their own, and don’t share, and we don’t export to enemies. This Evinrude ETEC multifuel engine is top of the line tech. Mission critical, and heavy duty. Not a bass fishing motor.
Here’s the ad for US military buyers:https://www.evinrude.com/en-US/multi-fuel.html
Heh, heh— yeah me to.... brand new milspec brute force and silent....
No— convict and shoot them— do it in gitmo— toss off the point— plenty of sharks.
Oh, yeah, Bay-bee. Those bass will never know what hit ‘em.
Yeah, like the ‘consensus’ of the obamaumao administration and others of our corrupt deep state to sell 20% of US owned Strategic metal... uranium to the Russian Rosatom association.
Proven kickback to the clintons via their “charity” foundation. Still the biotch runs free— criminal, major.
Proof: https://www.lombardiletter.com/clintons-allow-20-american-uranium-go-russia/19697/
Restricted mil spec, and US military hardware/software. Div. of Evinrude handles this direct with Pentagon.
Restricted technology. Brits have their own, and don’t share either.
Shoot the engine and sell the criminals.. hmm, there’s an interesting concept!
;^D
I think the Chinese can have a feather up their posterior and I could have a 150 hp ETEC on my Wooldridge 17’ jet boat and we’d both be tickled. :)
Translation: Bass trolling motors upgraded in classification in order to garner military contracts...............LOL!
Sum Ting Wong
“toss off the point— plenty of sharks.”
I assume that you have been to gtmo. You are dead-on! ;-)
Fan and and Yang yang were being used by our deep state to provide escape for some who were trying to escape.
Who knows. We certainly do not know.
Available to the public.
exectution...just like the Rosenbergs before them.
The only way to stop this is their death(s)
This scumbag LT is/was an instructor at the NAS Jacksonville training facility for the P-8A. Additionally, as a LT he would have completed at least one operational deployment in either the P-8 or P-3C. I can’t express openly what i would like to see happen to him specifically, but it involves termination of oxygen wastage.
China is flooding this country with spies and we have allowed it.
Its been there strategy and Bushes and Obama and Clinton
No they haven’t. They don’t have to! The technology comes to them. Hard to fathom that they can’t build a boat or Evinrude motor. Most of the crap comes from them. And how hard is it to tear one down, do a video and post it on the chineses dark web?
Too many foreigners have been allowed to worm their way
in to the very heart of America's security establishment
and government. It's no wonder the US Government doesn't
give a crap about the US citizen.
Why are people from China allowed to become US Navy officers?
Sounds to me this "officer" and his wife were just
sleeper agents of the Chi-Comms.
“” “” Hopefully, both traitor yangs will be keel-hauled. Creeps.”” “”
Under aircraft carrier no less.
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