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| Former NASA Employee Charged with Military Tech Sale to S.Korea | |
| 2011-01-11 | |
The Department of Justice issued a statement saying that U.S. citizen Chun Kue-sang was charged with one count of exporting U.S. defense items and one count of knowingly filing a false U.S. individual income tax return. Chun was not accused of taking technology or related materials from the NASA research center. Count one alleges that Chun exported Infra Red Focal Plane Array detectors and Infra red camera engines from the United States to South Korea from March 2000 to November 2005. These items were designated as defense articles on the U.S. Munitions List. Count two charges Chun with failing to declare the income and paying taxes on more than $80,000 of taxable income he allegedly earned from illegal activities during 2005. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Hope it wasn't high-tech "O" rings. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-01-11 14:29 |
| #2 as we are currently on a war footing isn't the penalty for this death But 746, even spying for Russia only gets a girl a government-paid airplane ticket home. South Korea is an ally, which should mean a few years imprisonment for the man... unless the ally were Israel, in which case it means life in solitary confinement. (That's the meaning of Dr. Steve's Jonathan Pollard reference, at the top of the article.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-11 12:55 |
| #1 as we are currently on a war footing isn't the penalty for this death |
| Posted by: 746 2011-01-11 10:46 |