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2020-04-22 Fifth Column

UCLA Professor Stole Missile Secrets For China, Faces 219 Years In Prison

[Newsweek]

A California-based electrical engineer has been found guilty of attempting to export sensitive military electronics to China and could face more than two centuries behind bars.

Yi-Chi Shih, 64—a part-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)—was convicted on 18 federal charges last week, linked to a plot to illegally obtain microchips from an American company and export them to China, where they could be used in a range of military systems including missiles and fighter jets.

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that Shih faces a faces a statutory maximum sentence of 219 years in prison. A co-defendant—Kiet Ahn Mai of Pasadena, California—had already pleaded guilty to smuggling charges linked to the plan in December.

Shih posed as a customer to acquire the hardware—so-called monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs)—from an unnamed U.S. company.

The MMICs were then shipped to Chinese company called Chengdu GaStone Technology (CGTC), where Shih had previously served as president. The firm was in the process of building its own MMICs factory, the DOJ press release said.

Such technology cannot be exported without Commerce Department authorization, which Shih did not have. MMICs are sensitive because of their use in a range of commercial and military applications, including missiles, missile guidance systems, fighter jets, radar and electronic warfare.

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File under: Commies

#1 Meanwhile, Diane Feinstein's phone has been ringing off of the hook.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-22 00:19|| 2020-04-22 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Can we execute him with anti-aircraft guns?

Posted by Raj 2020-04-22 00:25|| 2020-04-22 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 /\. Probably easier since that lethal injection cocktail is hard to get.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-22 00:46|| 2020-04-22 00:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Since he is Chinese use the CCP penalty. Have him dig a grave , kneel at the edge , fire a bullet into the back of his so he falls into the hole, then bill his family for the cost of the bullet.

Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-04-22 01:53|| 2020-04-22 01:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Yi got any usable organs?

Posted by Gromolet Craiting5425 2020-04-22 02:06|| 2020-04-22 02:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Certainly not his brain.

Posted by gorb 2020-04-22 04:18|| 2020-04-22 04:18|| Front Page Top

#7 shouldve just set up an unsecured server and left all the information on that. claim the Hillary defense.

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-04-22 07:20|| 2020-04-22 07:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Heck, a Prez Hillary would intern Chinese Americans to cover her ~~Chinese money~~ a$$ at this point. It's in the Donk's playbook.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-22 08:13|| 2020-04-22 08:13|| Front Page Top

#9 He got 40 months.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2020-04-22 08:15|| 2020-04-22 08:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Just hang him in the public square

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-22 09:42|| 2020-04-22 09:42|| Front Page Top

#11 This is another case of raging, right-wing anti-intellectualism.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-04-22 10:22|| 2020-04-22 10:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Sit him in an electric chair and turn it to trickle charge.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-04-22 14:06|| 2020-04-22 14:06|| Front Page Top

#13 MMICs are an old technology, certainly not secret.
The dude was exporting FAR banned manufactured technology to his OCONUS buddies without a license. Poss to accelerate integration and weapon assembly.

I wouldn't consider Newsweek, raging or right-wing.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-22 15:06|| 2020-04-22 15:06|| Front Page Top

#14 #1 Meanwhile, Diane Feinstein's phone has been ringing off of the hook.

Reminds me of the Dudes phone in Big Lebowski, that keeps ringing after the botched money hand off. Phones ringing Dude...

Posted by bbrewer126 2020-04-22 20:01|| 2020-04-22 20:01|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ THIS!

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-22 21:09|| 2020-04-22 21:09|| Front Page Top

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