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.

Comments

Laws are for little people

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess he just wasn't a friend of Bill or Hillary

Re:10 years, you're kidding!

[Calydor]

Yeah, if you sell it.

If you give it away for free you face several lifetime convictions for treason. See: Edward Snowden.