North Texas Man Sentenced For Smuggling Circuits To China, Russia

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Plano man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for smuggling circuits abroad for use by space programs in China and Russia.
Sixty-two-year-old Peter Zuccarelli was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in August to charges that include conspiring to smuggle and illegally export from the U.S.
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“The United States rightfully restricts, as a national security concern, the exportation of technological eq