Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake Cisco Sales

alphadogg writes "A Chinese man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a US prison this week for trafficking in counterfeit Cisco Systems gear. Yongcai Li, 33, will also have to pay the networking company nearly $800,000 in restitution after being the conduit for hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of counterfeit computer hardware, the FBI said Friday. Prosecutors said he procured the fake gear in China and then sent it to co-conspirators in the US. His alleged co-conspirators have not been charged. Li was arrested by FBI agents on Jan. 9, 2009, in Las Vegas — while the annual Consumer Electronics Show was taking place there. Two years ago, the FBI claimed to have seized more than $78 million worth of counterfeit equipment in more than 400 seizures."

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Re:Excuse me, editors?

[Anonymous Coward]

You may be new here.

Re:Excuse me, editors?

[syousef]

2.5 years is not 30 years, it’s 30 months.

I'd hate to see how long kdawson is gone when he takes his 30 minute lunch break.

Boss: it was a 30 minute break. You were gone a month!!!
kdawson: Yeah I always get small details like that mixed up. I thought you said months. Sorry.

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Re:Excuse me, editors?

[Penguinshit]

Wasn't kdawson part of NASA's Mars team a while back?

Re:Excuse me, editors?

[OOSCARR]

Maybe he confused 2.5 years Jupiter = 30 years Earth

Re:Excuse me, editors?

[Pharmboy]

Maybe 2.5 U.S. years is actually 30 metric years?

Re:Excuse me, editors?

[Hurricane78]

:s/1:\$/%/ ;)

P.S.: Hey, you can actually have that replacement right now:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62062
Just add the expression in there. :)