panic in the military as long island company bought Chinese parts, resold them as made in america to the US military. Chinese government aware and inv

He was only protecting the jobs of factory workers in New York who assemble the surveillance products.. lol

Look here, pictures of those hard working New York factory workers making $400/mo !

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...the lead supervisor on the assembly line, Sum Ting Wong hard at work making US made surveillance cameras and video recorders.. lol

Nothing is 'made in usa' anymore. How much dumber can the U.S. military get if they fell for the 'made in usa' stickers stuck on the Chinese surveillance goods?

I guess Trump was protecting Aventura Technologies with the tariffs.. lol

A quick search finds Aventura 'brand' cameras and DVRs all over ebay! Military grade? LMFAO

fuck you communist! they have all the right to make money buying cheap and reselling.

it's china fault if greedy americans buy cheap shit from china and sell it for 10 times the price.

it is always somebody else fault!!

What an idiot... blaming President Trump!

You're not smart enough to know that Donald Trump wasn't president in 2006..

According to the criminal complaint, since 2006, Aventura Technologies operated a scheme where over 1,000 shipments of network security software and hardware from China were relabeled as American and then sold to the federal government. That includes surveillance systems bought by the U.S. Army, Air Force, Department of Energy and other U.S. agencies. The company allegedly made nearly $90 million.
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What's amazing is that all these Chinese surveillance goods had to be CLEARED BY FEDERAL US CUSTOMS upon entering the country, then they were sold to the Federal Government - 20 million $$ worth. So the right hand of the Fed doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Would have been quite easy to solve at the port using part numbers that the US Military is using. You can't make this shit up.

If true and found guilty make a real example of these assholes. They could be responsible for God knows how much damage.

Yes, but he was protecting american jobs in Hauppauge, New York who work for the only Opto-electronics security company who still makes their goods in the USA, proudly serving the U.S. Military on air craft carriers and other sensitive mission critical infrastructure.

The tariffs were protecting those American workers, lol.

Tariffs will bring back $400/month American jobs!

Nothing is 'made in usa' anymore. How much dumber can the U.S. military get if they fell for the 'made in usa' stickers stuck on the Chinese surveillance goods?

I guess Trump was protecting Aventura Technologies with the tariffs.. lol

A quick search finds Aventura 'brand' cameras and DVRs all over ebay! Military grade? LMFAO

Chinese electronics manufactured to be given to US mil does 2 things:

1. It spies & feeds intel back to Chinese operatives, &

2. It possesses components engineered to fail (send out radio or microwave signal causing it to fry, etc).

Consumer electronics manufactured by them are no different. I kept seeing people here talk about Bao Feng radios & how great they are. I wouldn't use one of those even if you paid me.

Chinese electronics manufactured to be given to US mil does 2 things:

1. It spies & feeds intel back to Chinese operatives, &

2. It possesses components engineered to fail (send out radio or microwave signal causing it to fry, etc).

Consumer electronics manufactured by them are no different. I kept seeing people here talk about Bao Feng radios & how great they are. I wouldn't use one of those even if you paid me.

Easy.

Just use Chinese-manufactured, backdoor-riddled GPS/radar hardware (with accompanying firmware), and be left scratching your head when that slow moving, completely harmless, "invisible" cargo ship suddenly appears "out of nowhere" in the middle of the night, and comes straight at you.

Neither you nor the the other vessel will know you're on a collision course because both of your hardware have been hacked.

Never trust anything with a computer chip in it even for a second. If you didn't design, manufacture, and verify it yourself, you're in for a big surprise at the worst possible moment.

Russians have already hacked U.S.power grid. Now Chinese are joining the fun by demonstrating the power of their back doors spread all over the U.S. military hardware...

... and not to mention those CIA flying death traps (aka airplanes) coming out of Boeing factories.

It's a fuck-everybody-you-possibly-can (including yourself) computerized world out there.

Just imagine how much more interesting things are going to become once everybody starts putting (completely human-incomprehensible) AIs in their hardware.

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A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday.



Chinese government, emails and other evidence from the investigation showed "individuals in China were well aware of what was going on," Donoghue said.


The equipment made in China and sold by Aventura "as purportedly U.S.-made has been installed on dozens of Army, Navy and Air Force bases, Department of Energy facilities and, among other places, on Navy aircraft carriers," prosecutors said in the criminal complaint. Of the $88 million Aventura made since 2010, $20 million came from federal government contracts promising it would provide only U.S.-made products, they said.

Prosecutors accused the company of a cover-up involving systematically relabeling its merchandise to say it was made at its U.S. plant. It also circulated a photo that an Aventura executive, Jack Cabasso, showed the company's assembly line, but was actually an image of workers in a Chinese facility, the complaint said.

Last year, Cabasso emailed an employee of a Chinese manufacturer stressing the need to take steps to make sure its products couldn't be traced, prosecutors said.


The scheme began to unravel after the company sold 25 body cameras to the U.S. Air Force, security analysts discovered downloaded images including a logo of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security on the devices, the complaint said. A software analysis found indications that the camera's manufacturer in China "had been aware that the U.S. Air Force was the intended end user of the camera."

Seven current and former Aventura employees, including Cabasso and other members of its top management, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. The government also froze bank accounts and seized a 70-foot yacht it said is owned by Cabasso and his wife.

Phone messages seeking comment were left Thursday with Cabasso's attorney and at Aventura's headquarters in Commack, New York.

Chinese electronics manufactured to be given to US mil does 2 things:

1. It spies & feeds intel back to Chinese operatives, &

2. It possesses components engineered to fail (send out radio or microwave signal causing it to fry, etc).

Consumer electronics manufactured by them are no different. I kept seeing people here talk about Bao Feng radios & how great they are. I wouldn't use one of those even if you paid me.

I'd love to see who all is on the board of this company.

Been hearing rumors of this going on for years. I guess the rumors are true.

US Customs are the ones who discovered the fraud.