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Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy

Posted by timothy on from the vinegar-was-ersatz-too dept.

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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  1. Unconstitutional by cumadore69_luv · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is not authorized by the Constitution. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In other words the right to regulate chip counterfeiting belongs to your local State government, until you expand the Constitution with an amendment. Also, I enjoy receiving anal pleasure in truck stop bathrooms; you could say I have a wide stance.

    1. Re:Unconstitutional by nacturation · · Score: -1, Troll

      Ayn Rand fans should be horrified at the outcome here. Here is a businessman who is engaging in pure, free capitalism. Takes a lower quality product and sells it as a higher quality product. The government has no business getting involved in this man's pursuit of making a profit. If they don't like what he has to sell, they can take their business to another capitalist who offers better products and better service. Let the market sort itself out!

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  2. Kntel by feedayeen · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  3. Grammar Police (mod me down!) by ziani · · Score: 0, Troll

    "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

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion