From the Wikipedia article on USS Miami (SSN-755):
At 5:41 p.m. EDT on 23 May 2012, fire crews were called with a report of a fire on Miami while being overhauled at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. At the time the submarine was on a scheduled 20-month maintenance cycle,[4][5] indicating the submarine was undergoing an extensive overhaul called an “Engineering Overhaul”.[6] Injuries to seven firefighters had been reported by national media.[7] One crewmember suffered broken ribs when he fell through a hole left by removed deck plates during the fire.[8] It took firefighters 12 hours to extinguish the fire.[9]
Originally the U.S. Navy reported that the fire started when an industrial vacuum cleaner, used “to clean worksites on the sub after shipyard workers’ shifts,” sucked up a heat source that ignited debris inside the vacuum. On 23 July 2012 Casey J. Fury, a civilian painter and sandblaster working on the sub, was indicted on two counts of arson after confessing to starting the fire. Fury admitted to setting the 23 May fire by igniting some rags on the top bunk of a bunk room. He claimed to have started the fire to get out of work early.[10][11][12][13] On 15 March 2013 Fury was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution.[14]
The final repair bill was going to be between $450 million and $700 million so the Navy just scrapped it.
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Isn’t it sort of silly to give a 400 million dollar bill to some blue collar idiot? It’s not like you’re going to get a nickel out of him.
$400 million in restitution, eh? Gotta be tough on a painter’s salary.