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

I think it's the all-the-above combo of things that have just maxed people out on the big screen scene. People post-covid are kind of laid back and low key right now, just living their lives and not interested in grandiose woke ignorance being garden hosed down their throats, and constantly scolded and lectured.

That and heavy competition has watered down their audience, people have also moved back into watching shorter but more entertaining clips, a lot of times just funny real life getting captured on video spontaneous and non-scripted.

And Hollywood refuses to adapt, and I don't have a problem with them going down in flames.

Blocking access is not peaceful.

MILITARY
Military working dog Figo served his country. Now, he's being honored in Fayetteville
Lizmary Evans
Fayetteville Observer

The U.S. Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum is honoring a military working dog in a memorial paver ceremony this weekend and the public is invited to attend, the museum said Tuesday.

Figo was a Czech shephard and Belgian Malinois military working dog who was trained in patrolling, explosive odor detection and tracking through the Special Operations Forces Multi-Purpose Canine program.

The U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is honoring Figo, a military working dog, with a paver memorial ceremony Saturday, May 4, 2024.

After completing his training, Figo joined the Fifth Special Forces Group Airborne Division and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 and Syria in 2017. During both deployments, Figo found several buried improvised explosive devices, cleared routes and was “often the first American to encounter the enemy,” according to the release.

His actions saved countless lives.

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/military/2024/05/02/figo-the-dog-to-be-honored-at-airborne-special-operations-museum-fayetteville-nc/73513602007/

The AF should have escorted the demonstrators away from the area with their faces on the ground and military members holding each ankle.