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Posted by asjbiotek on 03/27/07 01:21
On Mar 21, 5:55 pm, "John W. Kennedy" <jwke...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> ...with a multibillion-dollar presence in the US, and who coolly and
> deliberately committed a felony (possibly multiple felonies) in the US.
Sony? LOL...
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist and you do know that Toshiba
actually DID commit a felony, some executives were prosecuted, and it
endangered the safety of the USA, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba
In 1987, the company was accused of illegally selling CNC milling
machines used to produce very quiet submarine propellers to the Soviet
Union in violation of the CoCom agreement. The Toshiba-Kongsberg
scandal involved a subsidiary of Toshiba and the Norwegian company
Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk. The incident put a strain on relations
between the United States and Japan and resulted in the arrest and
prosecution of two senior executives, as well as the imposition of
sanctions on the company by both countries. The US always relied on
the fact that the Soviets had noisy boats. Providing the USSR with
technology that would make their subs harder to find and track was,
supposedly, a significant threat to America's security. Senator John
Heinz, the late former husband of Teresa Heinz-Kerry said "What
Toshiba and Kongsberg did was ransom the security of the United States
for $517 million."
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