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Texas Man Who Acted As Russian Agent Gets 10 Years' Prison (go.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the doing-time dept.

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.

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  1. lucky trump is not in power yet as may been death by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    lucky trump is not in power yet as may been death by firing squid!

  2. TANJ by ChrisMaple · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And yet Hillary remains free.

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  3. Re:in soviet russia we bomb you! by smooth+wombat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's the Russian troll. Always trying to deflect blame from Russia.

    "It's Ukraine's fault Russia invaded them. Had they not wanted the freedom of the West rather than the oppression of Russia this wouldn't have happened."

    "It's Ukraine's fault the terrorists are receiving arms and munitions from Russia. Had they let them burn polling places, destroy ballots and attack those who wanted to vote in free and open elections this wouldn't have happened."

    "It's Ukraine's fault Russia invaded and occupies Crimea. Had Ukraine expelled the Tartars like Russia is doing, stolen their businesses like Putin is doing, put in place state propaganda like Putin is doing, this wouldn't have happened."

    "If Ukraine hadn't fought back when it was attacked by Russia the sanctions against Russia which have cut the GDP of Russia in half wouldn't have happened."

    It's always someone elses fault when Russia shoots itself in the foot, right comrade?

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