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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Kntel

[feedayeen]

If "Kntel's" chips are just as good as Intel's, why should the military care? If they don't, hold them responsible for the difference, financial loses if we had to order more and if anyone died because of malfunctions.

Grammar Police (mod me down!)

[ziani]

"The government would have probably went on for a few more years . . ." should be rewritten as, "The government probably would have gone on for a few more years . . ."

Thanks,
GP

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