Fort Worth Navy Contractor who Used Metal Parts Weaker Than Promised Headed to Prison – By Emerson Clarridge (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) / July 19 2020
A U.S. District Court judge in Fort Worth on Thursday sentenced a man to 55 months in prison for lying to the U.S. Department of Defense about the type of metal his company used inside aircraft parts.
Richard Hyde, the owner of Vista Manufacturing Company, pleaded guilty in August to making a false claim against the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman also sentenced Hyde, 64, to pay a $100,000 fine and to three years of supervised release.
Hyde invoiced the Navy for aircraft components that DOD later found were constructed from a metal different than the one the company said it would use, according to a description of stipulated facts filed in the case.
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