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Texas Man Who Acted As Russian Agent Gets 10 Years' Prison (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: A Texas man who acted as a secret agent for the Russian government and illegally exported cutting-edge military technology to Russia has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Alexander Fishenko learned his punishment Thursday in federal court in New York. He pleaded guilty in September to crimes including acting as a Russian agent. The 50-year-old Fishenko is a U.S. and Russian citizen. He owned Houston-based Arc Electronics Inc. Prosecutors say he led a scheme that evaded strict export controls for micro-electronics commonly used in missile guidance systems, detonation triggers and radar systems. Prosecutors say his company shipped about $50 million worth of technologies to Russia between 2002 and 2012. In other Russian-related news, a Russian government-owned news site Sputnik has reported that the Kremlin is building a nuclear space bomber that should be flight-ready by 2020.
in soviet russia we bomb you!
Shouldn't that be a "Russian Man"? A Russian stole technology for his mother country. The context is a bit different.
lucky trump is not in power yet as may been death by firing squid!
with bullets put in pig blood if the shot one is a muslim.
Guess he just wasn't a friend of Bill or Hillary
And yet Hillary remains free.
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hillary will use this as an excuse to start another war benefiting the western elite, killing thousands, as in libya,
I'm really curious about which "micro-electronics" he could have obtained that are strictly controlled and used in misile guidance systems. Maybe RAD6000-style radiation hardened SBCs? Maybe MEMS? A decoder for the high-resolution encrypted GPS signal? Is it so difficult to build missile guidance systems with COTS parts?
He didn't know what he was doing was wrong. He must have given the FBI a videotaped confession and sworn under oath that he intended to do this against the USA - otherwise no reasonable prosecutor would have given him a second glance.
Am Alexander Fishenko, patriotic American citizen and definitely not Russian spy, no Sir! Nothing fishenko er suspicious here.
Not falsely claiming to be a traffic light manufacturer, make very advanced traffic lights, microprocessors, radar, the lot. Shoot down a car 3 miles away, no wait strike from the record is how you say it?
Everyone uses them. The issue with trying to prosecute any spies is that your own get treated the same way and you can not say anything about it.
Sounds more like a plea deal than anything else otherwise the two countries would just switch caught spies like they normally do also outside of the public view.
Sooner or later, this will be used to kill Americans and allies. The man's action is a but-for cause of their death. He is getting off very light from that POV.
On the other hand, America's legal arms dealers are a massive industry, and they never get held responsible for how the weapons are used. So the ten years isn't for the deaths that are being caused, it's for the fact that the particular weapon is one that someone doesn't want sent overseas.
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ten years in America.
Selling technology is only 10 years, what a deal :)
Thank god he did not send some music tracks with that, he would have gotten 100 life sentences and a trillion dollar fine.
Trump seriously wants to suck V. Putin's dick he admires him so much as the personification of a strong leader not taking shit from anybody.
Trump just told Putin via the press that if Russia invades Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the USA will just sit back and act unconcerned. Nothing to see here, NATO or no NATO.
Now Trump's aides are busy backpedaling. Hohoho, that's not what he meant to say.
lucky trump is not in power yet as may been death by firing squid!
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Squid: Bloop bloop bloop
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They act like the CIA but in fact are networked multinationally. That is treason but they don't get 10 years do they?
lucky trump is not in power yet as may been death by firing squid!
And people call Trump stupid. They're putting him on ice so that he will be available for future trades with the Russians. The relatively light sentence can be taken as a sign of what we think he might be worth to the Russians in trade, which is to say small potatoes. Compare with somebody like Aldrich Ames, who's serving life without possibility of parole. The Russians would have to offer quite a bit more to redeem him.
Exporting listed items without the required permits is beyond stupid. Pretty much everything that the US makes unavailable is available from other countries, but usually still require a pile of paper work. The paperwork is inescapable.
So, they want to kill Snowden -- or at the very least lock him away for life, and he is an American hero.
Ross Ulbricht is serving life in prison building a website to buy and sell shit that should be legal (well, most of it) anyway.
Hillary Clinton commits treason, and goes free.
But this dude, sells military secrets to the Russians, and 10 years.... yep ... seems legit to me.
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Yeah... so no credit to Clinton's husband for continuing the war in iraq for 8 years of americans getting shot at for no fucking reason? Yes, I'm one of those people who got shot at for ... what?
Clinton's husband was president from 1993 to 2001. Are you saying you were in Iraq getting shot at during that time?
You were seriously fucked up if you were an American in Iraq during those years.
He's lucky that he wasn't also copying mp3s otherwise the sentence would have been much worse.
Requiem for the American Dream
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Requiem for the American Dream
Russia won the space race, they are a military super-power, and have no need for stealing anyone else's electronics.
Seriously folks, if a subcontractor in Hawaii like Snowden had access do you really think the Chinese didn't? It's a massive attack surface and one of those hundreds of thousands is going to have gambling debts or trade secrets for sex.
After all even Petraus right at the top of the tree was found guilty for selling secrets for sex.
Texas Man Who Acted As Russian Agent Gets 10 Years' Prison
When are they going to do something about the guy who's been acting as an evil wizard for the last 10 years?
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Despite it being a Trumpism he's probably right even if somebody else is President. If it's a slow takeover like the Ukraine instead of a blitzkrieg that's probably exactly what will happen apart from some pointless bluffing.
lucky trump is not in power yet as may been death by firing squid!
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I was expecting a name like Buck, or Cash. Alexander Fishenko, another immigrant whose loyalties lie elsewhere. We got lots of them now. After his prison sentence he should forfeit his property, be stripped of citizenship, and deported.
Plenty of pilots were shot at while enforcing the No-Fly zone during that period. Hell, Clinton even actively bombed Iraq in '98 to distract from his domestic performance issues. So, yes, he continued teh Gulf war for 8 years. He certainly never attempted to create a peace treaty.
An electronics exporter who violates ITAR and sells electronics abroad is not a secret agent, even if he misrepresented the purchases when he acquired those electronics.
And, how did he get this stuff? By "falsely claiming to be a traffic light manufacturer." Now, think about that for a second. The traffic lights in your neighborhood have "microprocessors which are frequently used in military systems, missile-guidance systems and detonation triggers" ? Well, they may (microprocessors can be put to many uses), but that doesn't mean that the traffic lights in your neighborhood contain secret military hardware. In fact, they certainly do not.
In other words, this guy was convicted of selling export-controlled hardware, which you can buy on the open market, not militarily secret hardware, which you cannot. There is a big difference (not least in that there near no exhaustive list of what is subject to ITAR control, and at times no easy way to determine if something is or is not export restricted), but you wouldn't know it from reading this article.
This man committed TREASON against the United States of America. Why is he not being summarily executed, with extreme prejudice, for this crime? Ten years isn't SHIT for treason. The only possible reason I can think of, is they want to keep him around to use for prisoner exchange, or to sift his brain for more information. Otherwise he should be pushing up daisies.
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I don't see how firing some squid causes death, but maybe in Trump's America it does.
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BeauHD still likes posting links to other posts he/she made as an addendum, regardless of how little they are actually related. Unless Slashdot management actually makes rules against this, I expect this behavior to continue unabated.
Chelsea Manning got 35 years for spying and aiding the enemy when she released to the American public the truth about the war they were in.
At this point, what difference does it make?
He didn't mean to break the law, so he shouldn't have been charged. /sarcasm
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
It depends on the temperature, a bit of frozen squid would be able to puncture the skin at high enough speed.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I meant firing in terms of laying them off, but I guess I could have made that clearer.
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