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HOLLYWOOD HILLS- On Thursday, July 22, the Department of Justice announced that a Hollywood Hills engineer was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for scheming to illegally obtain integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to China without the required filing.
Yi-Chi Shih, 66, was also ordered to pay $362,698 in restitution to the IRS and was fined $300,000 by United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt. Shih was convicted of one count of conspiracy to violate the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Shih also was convicted of one count of making false statements to an FBI agent, one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, three counts of subscribing to a false tax return, four counts of mail fraud, and four counts of making false statements to the IRS about his foreign assets.
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Los Angeles, California - An electrical engineer who schemed to illegally obtain integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to China without the required filing of electronic export information was sentenced Thursday to 63 months in federal prison.
Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, was sentenced by United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt, who also ordered him to pay $362,698 in restitution to the IRS and fined him $300,000.
After a seven-week jury trial that concluded in July 2019, Shih was convicted of one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Shih also was convicted of four counts of
An electrical engineer from Los Angeles who plotted to steal missile technology and sell it to a Chinese company has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.
U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt sentenced
Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, to 63 months or more than five years in prison for his role in the scheme. He was also ordered to pay $362,698 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the judge fined him $300,000.
Shih was arrested in January 2019 after he was found to have been involved in an illegal scheme to obtain monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) from an unnamed American company and smuggle them to the Chinese company Chengdu GaStone Technology (CGTC), which was placed on the Commerce Department’s Entity List in 2014.
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Los Angeles Electrical Engineer Gets Five Years in Prison for Selling Missile Technology to China
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An electrical engineer from Los Angeles who plotted to steal missile technology and sell it to a Chinese company has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.
U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt sentenced Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, to 63 months or more than five years in prison for his role in the scheme. He was also ordered to pay $362,698 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the judge fined him $300,000.
Shih was arrested in January 2019 after he was found to have been involved in an illegal scheme to obtain monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) from an unnamed American company and smuggle them to the Chinese company Chengdu GaStone Technology (CGTC), which was placed on the Commerce Department’s Entity List in 2014.