Navy bought counterfeit computer chips

You would assume that the Navy would be scrupulous when it purchases its technology, and that anyone with common sense would not try to hoodwink our nation's military. Yet last week, three members of a California family were charged with selling counterfeit computer chips to the Navy and other government agencies. How about that?

Mustafa Aljaff, 29, his sister, Marwah Felahy, 32, and her husband, Neil Felahy, 32, were arrested in Newport Coast, Calif., for selling counterfeit semiconductors that could cause sophisticated military and government equipment to fail.

The semiconductors are in medical equipment, aircraft and weapons systems, and according to the authorities, were imported from China and Hong Kong, Prosecutors said they imported more than 10,000 such chips.

For more on counterfeit chips:
- see this Washington Post article

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