A Virginia-based defense contractor has been sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for selling more than $7 million in goods to the U.S. military that were labeled as made in the USA but were actually manufactured in China.
A Virginia-based defense contractor has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for selling more than $7 million in goods to the U.S. military that were labeled as having been made in the USA but were actually manufactured in China, the Department of Justice said.
Kim’s company provided goods ranging from swimsuits for cadets at West Point and promotional T-shirts for the Army’s stunt parachute team, the Golden Knights, to water bottles emblazoned with the logo for the Marine Corps. The company also procured T-shirts for the National Guards of Indiana, North Dakota and Arkansas as well as spools of concertina wire and wire ropes for the Coast Guard.
— Raj Parekh, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia In all, the company signed dozens of contracts with the Department of Defense between 2011 and 2018 worth $24 million. Prosecutors say Kim would procure the goods from China and have them shipped to a warehouse in the U.S. He then enlisted the help of a labelling firm to remove all trace of the items’ origin and relabel them as being Made in the USA.
One giveaway that things weren’t totally up to snuff was when Kim delivered T-shirts whose washing instructions spelled the word “bleach” as “bleech,” prosecutors said.
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