What justification is there for employee jail time?

michaelt 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Supermicro Co-Founder Indicted in $2.5 Billion Nvidia GPU Smuggling Scheme

> On Thursday, the Justice Department announced it had indicted 71-year-old co-founder Wally Liaw, along with a Supermicro sales manager in Taiwan, Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang, and a contractor Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun for conspiring to smuggle the GPUs starting in 2024.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/co-founder-of-us-server-maker-ind...

> Prosecutors allege that Mr Liaw used brokers to order servers containing advanced Nvidia chips on behalf of a “pass-through” entity in South-East Asia; many were assembled in America and shipped to that entity, then repackaged in unmarked boxes and sent on to China. To fool customs inspectors, those involved allegedly created thousands of “dummy” servers to sit in the warehouses where the buyer claimed to store the equipment.

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/03/26/a-new-case-of-...

The good news jail time for a founder is sounding quite possible.

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protocolture 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Microchip salesman indicted for selling microchips.

What a weird country.

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kube-system 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

White collar criminals almost exclusively break laws in their own line of business... because that's what they do.

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charcircuit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's no weirder than drug dealer being indicated for selling a controlled substance.

	▲	protocolture an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Its closer to "food seller, indicted for selling otherwise legal food to people the government randomly decided are unable to eat"

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b112 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

contributed to this

If you're helping break federal law and you know about it, you should go to jail.

That's what I presume the "contributed to this" meant, this=this crime

	▲	pqtyw 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Some extreme double standards? Unless you think there is some reason why those running that same federal government are free to commit any type of federal crimes they wish with no repercussions...