Washington scientist admits faking steel-test
results for Navy submarines
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/8/2021 11:40:37 PM
Tacoma, Wash.—A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls. From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel—about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma.
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Hold on a minute, sailor. She maximized value for the company's shareholders; shouldn't that count for something? Evidently it counts for a whole lot, as the maximum allowable prison term is 10 years, but the Just-Us department says it will request the minimum sentence, since undermining our military to help potential enemies is among the USA's top priorities. That, and corporate profits. China or Russia would have dealt with this person summarily, but not us!