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

[Andrew Clegg]

This is an historical article posted on an online newsgroup, found by a Google search. The date of original publication was not provided. The article is most likely from the latter half of the 1990s.

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 5:47 PM, Steve Slate <restonham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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