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Submission + - Engineer faces 219 years in prison for smuggling US military chips to China (zdnet.com)

schwit1 writes: On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Yi-Chi Shih, a part-time Los Angeles resident, attempted to secure semiconductor chips used in US military applications in order to transfer them to Chinese associates.

The 64-year-old was subject to a six-week trial in a Los Angeles, California federal court.

Prosecutors alleged that Shih, alongside co-defendant Kiet Ahn Mai of Pasadena, California, conspired to gain access to a sensitive system belonging to an unnamed US firm which manufactured semiconductor chips and Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs).

The victim company’s PC systems were accessed fraudulently after Mai posed as a potential customer, giving Shih the opportunity to obtain custom processors. While the firm in question believed the chips would only be used in the United States, Shih transferred the products to the Chengdu GaStone Technology Company (CGTC), a Chinese firm building an MMIC manufacturing plant.

Evidence suggested that Shih managed to “defraud the US company out of its proprietary, export-controlled items, including its design services for MMICs.”

Comment Re:Nope (Score 2) 1514

Clinical Psychology is of course important. But, it pays pretty well, so you do not really need to forgive the debt of clinical psychologists because they have lots of money and can pay their bills. What we are talking about here is paying the bills of idiots who are passing off the costs of their basket weaving / womens studies degree / vacation on the taxpayer.

No.

Comment Re:There's 2000 women's study's grads a year (Score 1) 1514

Oh. Well, if the only requirement to be a good idea is that it is a low percentage of our overall economy, let me make more suggestions.


Lets pay me $200 million. that is only .001% and I will spend a lot of it.
Life is good if it is someone elses time and money that you feel you deserve. If you actually care, take your money and pay off peoples bills. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

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