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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!
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.
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!
Trump: Squid...YOU'RE FIRED!
Squid: Bloop bloop bloop
GaN transistors, Gunn diodes, RTDs?
Mostly random stuff.
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, if you sell it.
If you give it away for free you face several lifetime convictions for treason. See: Edward Snowden.
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I'm really curious about which "micro-electronics" he could have obtained that are strictly controlled and used in misile guidance systems.
By falsely claiming to be a traffic light manufacturer, Arc Electronics duped companies including Texas Instruments Inc., Xilinx Inc. and Toshiba Corp. to sell it sensitive electronic components, some of which were funneled to the Russian military, prosecutors said.
By the sounds of it, standard run of the mill components that I can easily buy here in New Zealand, but which because of completely retarded ITAR laws in the US, are prohibited for sale to the Russian Federation. I remember having to sign an ITAR import declaration for a batch of x86 based Sun servers; something that I could build a functional equivalent of with no ITAR license from off the shelf components.
To make it sound scary and justify a 10 year jail sentence, they have to imply that the things sold are scary military secrets. In reality the guy is probably only guilty of violating the US trade sanctions against Russia for political reasons. Most likely Russian businesses want the banal parts for the same banal reasons that any other company would want them for, but have to go through back channels due to economic sanctions.
These articles and the prosecutor are quoting the justification given in the ITAR laws, and there doesn't have to be evidence that the equipment has actual military purpose, the enduser is military, all that is required to be guilty under the law is exporting something on the DoD's list to a country on the State Department's list. Such banal items as the plastic fiber used to make SPDIF cables are on the list, so it's pretty easy to run afoul of this law when exporting things from the US, or importing things from the US for re-export.
He's lucky that he wasn't also copying mp3s otherwise the sentence would have been much worse.
Requiem for the American Dream
Rofl
Requiem for the American Dream
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.
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?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
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.
There is nothing Russia can buy from any other country that they can't make themselves.
No, it can't. There are many high-tech components Russia cannot make because it does not have the technical knowledge nor manufacturing to do. If it did it would be building its own ships rather than paying France to do so or its own engines instead of from Ukraine.
You are aware they are a military super-power right?
No, they're not. Russia is only capable of attacking its weaker, smaller neighbors because it has no navy to speak of. Its sole aircraft carrier has to a have a tug come along when it goes into open waters because it breaks down so often.
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.
Speaking of propaganda. . . How much vodka is Putin paying you folks? It's not like the ruble is worth much nowadays. And since he's destroying imported food everything costs a lot more so he has to pay you in vodka to you keep coming to the office in St. Petersburg to do your daily trolling.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
Reagan paid Iran to keep the hostages until after the election. Reagan also violated U.S. law by selling arms to terrorists.
Clinton got paid to arrange arms sales deals. It's exactly the same; premeditated, for profit. And to boot, she deleted evidence from her email server, and we got the information from deleted emails. So, premeditated crime, with destruction of evidence. Tell us again how HRC isn't precisely the same grade of criminal as Reagan.
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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.
Are you serious, or just the average clueless American?
This is slashdot; what do you expect?
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.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
I don't see how firing some squid causes death, but maybe in Trump's America it does.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
Shouldn't that be a "Russian Man"? A Russian stole technology for his mother country. The context is a bit different.
Actually, the title is correct. If you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... you would see that he was nationalized to become a U.S. citizen in 2003; thus, he, at the time, was a citizen or Texas man.
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?
Do you have any proof that Trump did something illegal? If you do, you should hand it over to the prosecutor.
We have actual verified (by the FBI) proof that Hillary forwarded documents that were classified at the time, yet she isn't in jail because she is powerful, and a Democrat (like the president and his appointees).
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.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.