California aircraft parts employee gets prison for selling military defective helicopter bolts
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge has sentenced a San Diego County aircraft worker to two years in federal prison for selling the military defective bolts for its helicopters.
U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy says 57-year-old Joel H. Potter pleaded guilty and admitted he put troops at risk. He was sentenced Monday.
Duffy says the U.S. Department of Defense discovered the problem after a bolt's head broke off as it was being installed on a Sikorsky CH-53E helicopter, prompting a worldwide alert to the Navy and Marine Corps.
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The former employee of Mackenzie Aircraft Parts Inc. in Vista, Calif., from 2004 to 2008 sold more than 16,000 noncompliant aircraft parts to a supplier contracted by the Defense Department.
He also must pay $244,660 in restitution.
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