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Thursday, September 09, 2010

Supplier of steel for submarines charged with fraud

USS VirginiaFederal prosecutors have charged a supplier of steel and other metal parts for Virginia Class submarines with defrauding the U.S. government of more than $1 million by allegedly supplying a Navy subcontractor with metal that did not meet the Navy's specifications.

According to the charges filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Bristol Alloys Inc., and its president, James Bullick, falsified certification documents that showed the metal parts met stringent Navy requirements for submarines.

Prosecutors allege that Bristol Alloys and Bullick knew the material did not conform with the Navy's specifications, and said those parts "were critical to the integrity of the Navy submarines in which the parts were to be installed."

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