GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former Clarksville man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for plotting to fraudulently obtain U.S. technology products for export to China.
Fifty-one-year-old Zhenchun Huang was sentenced Monday in federal court in Greenbelt.
According to his plea agreement, Huang, a former contract scientist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, incorporated a business in Maryland.
Prosecutors say Huang falsely represented to three U.S. companies that he was employed by NASA and was working on a joint project between NASA and Allray, his company.
Authorities say Huang fraudulently obtained cadmium zinc telluride and mercury cadmium telluride wafers.
