Posted on 09/09/2021 11:21:34 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A Chinese businessman on Wednesday was sentenced to two years in prison for illegally exporting marine technology with uses in anti-submarine warfare from the US for the benefit of a Chinese military university.
Qin Shuren (覃樹人), who founded a company that sold oceanographic instruments, was sentenced by US District Judge Denise Casper in Boston after admitting he illegally exported devices called hydrophones that can be used to monitor sound underwater.
Prosecutors had sought seven-and-a-half years in prison for Qin, who was also fined US$20,000.
His guilty plea was conditional, allowing him to appeal a ruling by Casper not to suppress the evidence against him.
The 45-year-old marine biologist was charged in 2018 and had already served three months in jail after his arrest.
Defense lawyers said he founded LinkOcean Technologies Ltd in China in 2005 to provide oceanographic instruments to scientists, and immigrated to the US with his family in 2014 as a permanent resident
(Excerpt) Read more at taipeitimes.com ...
> sentenced to two years in prison <
Well, that will teach him. To do it again, that is.
“US Businessman”
OK Sure.
Just like the “high school students” who shot 150 rounds at someone in North Carolina
Or the “youths” who stormed a target in a mass shop-lifting event.
But the Federal government violates ITAR giving NVGs to a known enemy, but no one swings for it.
I was going to say, “Americans in Afghanistan”.
Woulda been OK if the big guy had got his 10%.
Ya know, that is a very good point. ITAR violations warrant serious fines and prison time. But then nobody on “our” side has the courage to bring it up. I think I’ll write to the offices of little Marco and Rick Scott to see if they’d be interested. /sarc
But I am going to contact them anyway.
Question: So if THAT was wrong, just sending the info and presumably the specs....Why was it okay for the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to turn over millions of dollars of complete working models to our enemies?
Fair is fair now. Should POTUS be on trial and jailed?
Asking for a friend....dontcha know.
“Woulda been OK if the big guy had got his 10%.”
Yep.
5.56mm
What about Biden and the Generals leaving behind $83.5 Billion in “tech” for our enemiesw?
2 yrs in prison and a $20k fine?
SPJNK.
And bill Clinton is still walking free
He forgot to give Biden his cut of the deal!
The “Big Guy” didn’t get his 10%.
Yeah, right, "US businessman" Qin Shuren.
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