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Article Source: The Boston GlobeMOBILE, Ala. - A Belgian arms dealer has pleaded guilty to illegally exporting airplane engines and parts from the United States to Iran for use in aging F-5 fighter jets sold to the Islamic nation before its 1979 revolution.
Jacques Monsieur, along with Iranian national Dara Fotouhi, was charged in a six-count indictment with conspiracy, money laundering, and smuggling. Fotouhi, who previously lived in France, remains at large.
The maximum penalty is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, but the plea agreement offers Monsieur, 56, a chance for leniency.
The average individual from off the corner gets 7 to life for a bag of dope, but the system is willing to offer an arms dealer leniency? Whom might he be giving up; not to do five years and or pay that quarter of a million in fine? With a slap on the wrist like that, what's to stop this guy from going back into the action again? Who would trust him after this?
I would take it, he was just the low dickens on the toting pole and that the larger fishes are in sikes, or so it should be.
What sort of message is the system sending out here, that they don't work with dope dealers, but if you sell arms, make more money, you do less time? Irony...lol. Maybe the judge got scared for his life? After all if they've got the mind set to get into the field, well.... This ones open to a lot of speculation, the Globe didn't get specific.
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