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To: MNDude

That is a really good find!

SEATTLE — For decades, the U.S. Navy’s leading supplier of high-strength steel for submarines provided subpar metal because one of the company’s longtime employees falsified lab results — putting sailors at greater risk in the event of collisions or other impacts, federal prosecutors said in court filings Monday.

The supplier, Kansas City-based Bradken Inc., paid $10.9 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement, the Justice Department said. The company provides steel castings that Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding use to make submarine hulls.

Bradken in 2008 acquired a foundry in Tacoma, Washington, that produced steel castings for the Navy. According to federal prosecutors, Bradken learned in 2017 that the foundry’s director of metallurgy had been falsifying the results of strength tests, indicating that the steel was strong enough to meet the Navy’s requirements when in fact it was not.


1,550 posted on 06/15/2020 8:03:05 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: Steven W.

Confirmed https://t.co/TkI1teuaXf— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 16, 2020

Three NYPD cops have their drinks poisoned (bleach?) at Shake Shack.

1,570 posted on 06/15/2020 8:28:29 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Steven W.
From the Linked in Account of a woman, whose account says she was the director of metallurgy at Bradkin; and whose name mathes the name of the person on the DOJ press release.

https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C5603AQGr6ullmFht6g/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0?e=1597881600&v=beta&t=0fCCI9YQeVWYwNGZCUXElgHIRzDuMHevq5WCgvk5xVY

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaine-thomas-44923235

The picture reminds ME personally of an SJW lardass feminazi, but I could be mistaken.

1,575 posted on 06/15/2020 8:33:38 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Steven W.

Bradken in 2008 acquired a foundry in Tacoma, Washington, that produced steel castings for the Navy. According to federal prosecutors, Bradken learned in 2017 that the foundry’s director of metallurgy had been falsifying the results of strength tests, indicating that the steel was strong enough to meet the Navy’s requirements when in fact it was not.
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Deferred prosecution-Paid fine—does that mean that there will be no jail time? Someone needs to do more than pay a fine for this, in my opinion. Is this director going to experience any personal consequences-or just the corporation pays a fine?


1,826 posted on 06/20/2020 10:56:18 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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