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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Take A Look, Boy This Hits Home More Than Anyone Can Understand

Supplier of steel for submarines charged with fraud

By Peter Frost

The U.S. Navy commissioned the Virginia-Class New Mexico March 27. The ship is the 6th Virginia Class in the Navy and the third delivered by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News. (Adrin Snider / March 25, 2010)

Federal prosecutors have charged a supplier of steel and other metal parts for Virginia Class submarines with defrauding the U.S. government by supplying material that did not meet Navy specifications.

According to the charges filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Bristol

Prosecutors allege that Bristol Alloys and Bullick knew the material did not conform to the Navy's specifications, and said those parts "were critical to the integrity of the Navy submarines in which the parts were to be installed."

Alloys Inc., and its president, James Bullick, falsified certification documents that showed the metal parts met stringent Navy requirements for submarines.

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