Her lawyer has the nerve to say that this is a rare case not motivated by greed. BS. As Chief Metallurgist for a company charging for ultra-performance steel castings, it was her job not only to do testing, but to design a manufacturing process that met the specs for the ultra-high performance steel they were being paid a fortune to produce. Passing material that underperformed the specs saved the company vast sums on re-dos, adjusting their process to achieve better results, or maybe losing the contract altogether. At minimum, she kept her job and was rewarded for her “success”. Did the owners of the company know she was cheating?
She wasn’t chief metallurgist in 1985 which may mean that fudging the test certifications was SOP where she worked.