Posted on 07/21/2021 7:28:54 AM PDT by ransomnote
A Chinese national was sentenced Wednesday to three years and six months in federal prison for conspiring to submit false export information through the federal government’s Automated Export System and to export maritime raiding craft and engines to China fraudulently, and attempting to export that equipment fraudulently in violation of U.S. law. As part of his plea agreement, he agreed to the administrative forfeiture of $114,834.27, the amount caused to be wired to a U.S. manufacturer to purchase the raiding craft and engines.
Ge Songtao, 51, of Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2020. According to court documents, Ge was the chairman of Shanghai Breeze Technology Co. Ltd., a company headquartered in Shanghai, China. Beginning in 2018, Ge was interested in identifying a source of supply of U.S.-manufactured combat rubber raiding craft equipped with engines that could operate using gasoline, diesel fuel or jet fuel. These vessels and multi-fuel engines are used by the U.S. military and can be operated after being launched from a submerged submarine or dropped into the ocean by an aircraft. No comparable engine is manufactured in China.
One of Ge's U.S.-based employees, co-defendant Yang Yang, attempted to order seven of the raiding craft equipped with these engines from a U.S. manufacturer. When the U.S. manufacturer suggested that Yang purchase cheaper gasoline-fueled engines, she insisted that she wanted to purchase the military-model multi-fuel engines. To induce the manufacturer to sell this equipment, Yang falsely represented that her customer was an entity called United Vision Limited in Hong Kong, rather than Shanghai Breeze Technology Co. in Shanghai. One of Yang’s Chinese co-workers had told her that American manufacturers would be more likely to sell to an entity in Hong Kong rather than one in mainland China. By misrepresenting what company was buying the equipment and where it was located, Yang caused the entry of false information in the Department of Commerce’s Automated Export System in violation of federal law.
To facilitate the purchase of the raiding craft and engines, Ge arranged for wire transfers to a separate company in Hong Kong, Belt Consulting Company Limited, which in turn wired $114,834.27 to the U.S. manufacturer. He also coordinated plans to send an employee to Hong Kong to receive the raiding craft and engines and transship them to mainland China. The plot failed and authorities arrested Ge and his co-defendants before the raiding craft and engines were shipped overseas.
On Sept. 15, 2020, Yang pleaded guilty to the same two charges to which Ge pleaded guilty, and on Dec. 9, 2020, was sentenced to a time-served sentence or the equivalent of approximately 14 months’ imprisonment. On Aug. 13, 2020, co-defendant Zheng Yan pleaded guilty to conspiring to submit false export information and to export the raiding craft and engines fraudulently in violation of U.S. law, and on March 31, was sentenced to a time-served sentence or the equivalent of approximately 6 months’ imprisonment and 11 months’ home-detention. The trial of remaining co-defendant, Fan Yang, is scheduled to begin on August 2.
Acting U.S. Attorney Karin Hoppmann for the Middle District of Florida made the announcement.
The FBI, the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the U.S. Department of Commerce – Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the case.
Trial Attorney Heather Schmidt of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Controls Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Coolican of the Middle District of Florida prosecuted the case.
The amazing part is that we still make something here.
Any detail on they boats make and model?
This was the ONE they caught; how many other Chinese are sending stuff to be used against us to their motherland China?
If not mistaken, the engines were made by Johnson/Evinrude. I saw a flyer about them and it stated they were only available to US Military.
Untold. Most of the resources are spent on the Capital “riot” and flying Covid positive illegals across the country.
“Any detail on they boats make and model?”
...and, can you ski behind them.
For the love of God send a couple of JDAMS at the Three Gorges Dam and drown these Chink bastards once and for all. They clearly launched a bio attack on the world.
That is a de facto act of war.
Yet, we keep hiring them.
I think the multi-fuel motors in question are built by Raider Outboards, and appear to be based heavily on the old OMC 35-hp 2-cycle motors from the 1990s and earlier. Sometimes simple beats high-tech. Given the massive amount of small engine manufacturing already done in China, it’s hard to believe that they don’t have a clone of this design running... especially given OMC’s global reach at its peak (before the Japanese brands took over).
And they got slapped on the wrist and told not to get caught next time.
For the love of God send a couple of JDAMS at the Three Gorges Dam and drown these Chink bastards once and for all
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First: that act of mass murder would kill 400 million Chinese citizens - most of whom hate the CCP;
Second: it would not affect the CCP in the slightest;
Third: that act would precipitate a nuclear war with China;
Fourth: millions of Americans would die in the nuclear exchange as the CCP would be motivated to kill as many as possible;
Fifth: Since the CCP did not sign on to any limiting nuclear arms treaty, they now have or will shortly have 126 DF-41 missiles (range 9,600 miles - to make it simple, hit anywhere in the USA) with 1 MT or up to 10 MIRV with 20/90/150 kT warheads - impact 30 minutes after launch; that’s 1260 warheads - 260 more that the US or Russia.
Sixth: Per your murderous suggestion, the CCP has assigned you a special delivery package based on your location - discovered from you cell phone data which they are now continuously tracking. no need to sign for it, as it will be a 20kT air burst 100 meters over your head.
I appreciate you post but to me the average Chinese would spit in your mouth if your teeth were on fire. They’re a nation of thieves. They send their ‘’exchange students’ here with explicit instructions to steal every bit of intellectual property and technology they can.
The deaths of 400 million Chinese(and I’d like to know where you got that figure) would hardly matter to a nation of over a billion people.Sorry but my give a crap meter is on empty for China.
A Chinese national, not A Nationalist Chinese.
You are so wrong about the average Chinese and that’s just pure hatred. You tar 1.43 billion people with the same brush which makes you no better than a CCP PLA official.
The Chinese do not send any one anywhere - the CCP does.
The figure is the number of people in the cities that would be totally destroyed by the dam burst.
Its not what matters to the “Chinese nation,” its what matters to the CCP. They are two distinct things.
After WWII the Chinese wanted to exterminate all Japanese, only the sight of Nagasaki and Hiroshima deterred them. And that was for the deaths of 20 million Chinese. Its a matter of face and you plans would ensure their response would be nuclear.
Guess your “crap meter” is on empty for over a billion people and all the millions of Americans who would die (including you and your meter) in a nuclear holocaust.
Its thoughtless people that make ugly Americans. Ask any European, Japanese, etc.
Take your own inventory before you take mine. The CCP is not something that fell out of the clouds, they’re the Chinese people themselves. Are you some CCP bot or what?
This nation of people have unleashed a deadly virus on the world and they deserve to suffer for it. And personally I don’t give a damn what the Japanese or Europeans think of me and my country. Two generations of my family fought the Germans in two world wars and the Japanese in the second and damn near lost their lives doing it.
You’re a self-righteous twit and self-righteousness is just a phony form of respectability. Don’t ever post anything to me again and I’ll do likewise to you.
Sure. I dislike people that want to murder other people because it makes them feel good, make a display of virtue signalling, and are just lousy people to begin with.
Your pedigree sucks because none of those accomplishments are yours and so amounts to so much braggadocio, not to mention hubris.
Are you thick or what? What did I tell you? Virtue signalling? Hating Communists isn’t virtue signalling. It’s moral integrity. And who the hell are you to take my inventory?
I’m entitled to my opinion as you are to yours.
Now for the last time bug off.
Virtue signalling? Hating Communists isn’t virtue signalling. It’s moral integrity. And who the hell are you to take my inventory?
I’m entitled to my opinion as you are to yours.
Now for the last time bug off.
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Hating people who are NOT Communists and would love nothing better than to be free of their Communist dictatorship is hate-filled, and immoral; you have an inventory? Is English your first language, or are you a store room or something?
Your maniacal hatred is a virtue signal to all those like yourself that are woefully uniformed about modern China and do not want to know or understand the reality, preferring to live in some sort of dank and dark closet, only emerging to spew invective. BTW is that where you keep your inventory?
Sad you are such a hater; please take your own advise.
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