[Scan-DC] Got any old gear for a good cause?

[Steve Slate]

That’s odd - he plead guilty in Dec 2019 for a crime committed in 1995?  That’s a crime that took place 25 years ago.  I thought that there was a statute of limitations on things like fraud.

Steve

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 14:40, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> EEB owner sentenced for fraud: The Fairfax Journal reports that the
> owner of the now-defunct Electronic Equipment Bank in Vienna,
> Virginia, Richard F. Robinson, K4EIH, has been sentenced to four
> months in jail and four months home detention for fraud. The Journal
> report by Ellen Sorokin says that Robinson, 68, pleaded guilty last
> December for conspiring to submit false invoices to the Drug
> Enforcement Administration in 1995. Robinson also was ordered by US
> District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema to pay $52,100 in fines and
> restitution. Robinson pleaded guilty in December to one count of
> conspiracy to submit false invoices to the DEA in August 1995. The
> sentencing was February 19. Federal authorities say in documents filed
> in US District Court that Robinson conspired with Robert Burchell, a
> telecommunications specialist at the DEA's Northern Virginia
> headquarters. Court documents say Robinson was indicted on charges he
> submitted two bogus invoices to the federal agency totaling $50,000
> for batteries used in DEA radios, but the batteries never were
> delivered. Robinson received payment for the nonexistent batteries and
> kept an estimated $12,000 for his efforts, authorities said in the
> court documents, but Burchell instructed him to pay the rest of the
> money to third parties. Authorities said the third-party payments
> actually were for Burchell's personal benefit. Burchell was sentenced
> to four years in prison last October
> --arrl
> 
> On Jan 23, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought the owner of EEB got into some legal trouble. I don’t recall for sure and I don’t mean to besmirch anyone if my recollection is wrong. EEB was a great store and I bought my first “real” Hf receiver there, a Yaesu FRG-100. I still have it, 30 years later.
> 
> On Jan 23, 2020, at 4:21 PM, Blair Thompson <b_thom at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> That's the place.
> 
> 
> On Thursday, January 23, 2020, 4:11:02 PM EST, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> EEB??
> 
> On Jan 23, 2020, at 3:49 PM, Blair Thompson via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
>  Say, that wouldn't be that fellow who ran the surplus store out in Vienna, Virginia, would it? I used to get out to his store from time to time. I bought a few things from him, like copies of "Passport to World Band Radio." I've forgotten the name of the store. I've forgotten his last name too, but I think I know his first name.
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