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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.
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.
And yet Hillary remains free.
See, because most people do it backwards. It's power first, then treason. Do it the wrong way 'round and you risk going to jail.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Thank god he did not send some music tracks with that, he would have gotten 100 life sentences and a trillion dollar fine.
Are you serious, or just the average clueless American? There is nothing Russia can buy from any other country that they can't make themselves. In particular when it comes to weapons. You are aware they are a military super-power right? Do you really think some little-heard of electronics company got hold of a secret super weapon and sold it to the Russians, so they can use it to kill Americans? Wake up you idiot. There is obviously something else behind it, but BS accusations about spies and superweapons makes it easier to swallow for dumb Americans like yourself, and it fits the agenda.
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.