CEO Gets 6 Years for Selling Counterfeit Equipment that Ended up on Fighter Jets

[rangerrebew]

CEO Gets 6 Years for Selling Counterfeit Equipment that Ended up on Fighter Jets
 
nj.com | By Matthew Enuco
Published May 02, 2024 at 6:45 pm

The CEO of dozens of companies, including some in New Jersey, was sentenced to more than six years in prison after pleading guilty last summer to selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of counterfeit networking equipment that made its way into sensitive places including U.S. fighter jets, federal authorities said Thursday.

Onur Aksoy, 40, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty in U.S. district court on June 5, 2023, to two counts of conspiring with others to traffic in counterfeit goods, to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, authorities said. Aksoy, who was also known as Ron Aksoy and Dave Durden, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan in Trenton federal court.
 
"Through an elaborate, years-long scheme, Aksoy created and ran one of the largest counterfeit-trafficking operations ever," U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna said. "His operation introduced tens of thousands of counterfeit and low-quality devices trafficked from China into the U.S. supply chain, jeopardizing both private-sector and public-sector users, including highly sensitive U.S. military applications like the support platforms of U.S. fighter jets and other military aircraft."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/05/02/ceo-gets-6-years-selling-counterfeit-equipment-ended-fighter-jets.html

[rangerrebew]

It should have been 10 years with no parole for each part that wound up on a jet.  He endangered not only the aircrew and maintainers but people on the ground should it crash.

[Smokin Joe]

One more reason to pick our own cotton.

We need to make our own stuff, not rely on elsewhere. Especially when millions of dollars (or billions) in military hardware and the lives of our service personnel depend on it (not to mention, potentially, our national survival).