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Subcontractor Charged With Supplying Faulty Sub Parts

September 10 2010

USA

Federal prosecutors have charged a Pennsylvania company with defrauding the government by supplying critical metal components for submarines that failed to meet Navy specifications, reports the Virginian-Pilot (Hampton Roads, Va.).

Bristol Alloys fraudulently certified that metals critical to the subs' integrity had been heat-treated when that was not the case, according to papers filed by prosecutors in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

The metal was intended for use in the...

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