Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy

itwbennett writes "Neil Felahy of Newport Coast, California, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and counterfeit-goods trafficking for his role in a chip-counterfeiting scam. Felahy, along with his wife and her brother, operated several microchip brokerage companies under a variety of names, including MVP Micro, Red Hat Distributors, Force-One Electronics and Pentagon Components. 'They would buy counterfeit chips from China or else take legitimate chips, sand off the brand markings and melt the plastic casings with acid to make them appear to be of higher quality or a different brand,' the US Department of Justice said in a press release. The chips were then sold to Naval Sea Systems Command, the Washington, DC group responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships and systems, as well as to an unnamed vacuum-cleaner manufacturer in the Midwest."

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Ron Paul!!!

[BitHive]

This is why the government shouldn't be allowed any more money than is needed to keep the lights on in the capitol, they always fuck things up! When will people learn to temper their bigoted distrust of the free market and private enterprise?

Re:uuuh

[Rogerborg]

I suggest you start a small business owned by a woman who is a minority.

Why is it (properly, IMHO) called racism and/or sexism if someone gives favoritism to a white male but doing the inverse is just fine and dandy?

Asking that question is worse than anything that Hitler ever did. That's why.

This explains a lot

[kmankmankman2001]

OK, now I have a better understanding of why my vacuum cleaner does such a lousy job . . . and why F-22's keep landing on it.