Posted on 07/15/2019 4:22:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A jury found an electrical engineer and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor guilty of exporting stolen U.S. military technology to China.
UCLA adjunct professor Yi-Chi Shih was convicted June 26 on 18 federal charges, Newsweek reported, and could now lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, while also facing up to 219 years behind bars for numerous violations of the law. These include conspiracy to break the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), committing mail and wire fraud, lying to a government agency, subscribing to a false tax return, and conspiring to gain unauthorized access to information on a protected computer, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Shih and co-defendant Kiet Ahn Mai tried to access illegally a protected computer owned by a U.S. company that manufactured semiconductor chips called monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs). MMICs are used by the Air Force and Navy in fighter jets, missiles and missile guidance technology, and electronic military defense systems.
The chips were exported to Chengdu GaStone Technology Company (CGTC), a Chinese company, without a required Department of Commerce license. Shih previously served as the president of CGTC, which made the Commerce Department’s Entity List in 2014 “due to its involvement in activities contrary to the national security and foreign policy interest of the United States — specifically, that it had been involved in the illicit procurement of commodities and items for unauthorized military end use in China,” according to court documents cited by the DOJ. …
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Sure, China’s becoming more “capitalist”.
200 years? I bet he doesn’t serve the full term.
Foreign nationals committing these crimes should be subject to swift and certain Capital punishment.
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Why pick on this poor shlub? Didn’t klinton sell some missile technology to the chinks? Let’s put him in a supermax in solitary.
Mrs. Bill Clinton should be convicted on about 30,000 counts of federal charges.
When a Chinese launch of a Loral payload failed, Loral - whose CEO Bernie Schwartz was a big Clinton donor - was permitted to do a reliability analysis of the Chinese system. U.S. experts believed that the resulting analysis, which was shared in detail with the Chinese, significantly improved the reliability of Chinese missiles and gave the Chinese valuable insights into how to perform such an analysis.
This kind of expertise is often more valuable than drawings and software. The so-called -ilities, reliability, availability, maintainability can be a war winning edge.
So, basically, in an attempt to improve the bottom line for Loral and pay off a major contributer, Clinton provided valuable aid to the Chinese.
Exactly correct. Try ‘em and Fry ‘em as far as I’m concerned and make it the most painful method possible.
As a U.S. citizen, why wasn’t Yi-Chi Shih charged with treason?
The Hell with prison. We’ll be paying his way.
Hang his ass for espionage and make it a public spectacle.
“As a U.S. citizen, why wasn’t Yi-Chi Shih charged with treason?”
Treason is defined very specifically in the US Constitution. It’s one of only 3 such crimes.
Can you name the other two?
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Our "Jesters System" is such a total clown show.
They say sh*t like this with a straight face.
UCLA is not the only university who is doing this!
We still dont know what Obama/Biden handed over to the Chinese.
We do know they got paid off bigtime using Biden’s son, Hunter, as a “front.”
Musta been very valuable US secrets.
Biden later strongly defended China......and had to backtrak later when the heat was on.
We are not at war with China nor has there been Congressional authorization for military action against it. There hasn’t been a treason charge since WW2, and there has not been an execution for it since the US Civil War.
My son had a Chinese TA for math at Kansas University and no one could make heads or tails what the dude was saying.
Well done, Madame.
Enjoy your day.
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It was okay when Clinton and Gore did it for campaign cash.
The Chinese have been consummate thieves for millennia; there is a reason for the term “Chinese Bandits.”
I would not let ANYONE from China into the U.S., not even “tourists.”
They are also the most untrustworthy people on the planet. And rude? There is no word for it.
“Why pick on this poor shlub? Didn’t klinton sell some missile technology to the chinks? Let’s put him in a supermax in solitary.”
Sounds good to me.
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