Rabu, 23 September 2009

Professor Gets 4 Years In Prison For Exporting Technical Information on UAVs


University of Tennessee (UT) Professor John Reece Roth, 72, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act by conspiring to illegally export, and actually exporting, technical information relating to a U.S. Air Force (USAF) research and development contract. (See indictment here)

Prof. Roth was convicted by a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee of conspiring with Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc. (AGT) to unlawfully exporting fifteen different defense articles to a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA),

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