Illinois company, president sentenced for illegal exports
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said Stoelting Co. of Wood Dale, Ill., and its president LaVern Miller, were sentenced in connection with criminal violations of the country’s export rules.
Between January 1998 and February 1999, Stoelting, under Miller’s authority, “knowingly exported and attempted to export” polygraph equipment to China without the required export licenses from the Commerce Department. The agency said this equipment could foster human rights violations.
Miller was sentenced to two and a half years probation, including six months of electronically monitored home confinement, 500 hours of community service, and a criminal fine equivalent to the costs of probation and electronic monitoring, estimated to be $18,000. Stoelting was sentenced to two and a half years corporate probation and a $20,000 criminal fine.
The Commerce Department said in June 2004 Stoelting and Miller each agreed to a $44,000 civil penalty and a five-year denial of export privileges in connection with the case.