Fed atty: Military secrets sold to pay for Maui home

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By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, July 29, 2010


A federal prosecutor said Thursday a former B-2 bomber engineer helped China design a stealth cruise missile to raise money to pay the $15,000-a-month mortgage on the mansion-like home he built on Maui's north shore.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Sorenson told a jury in closing arguments to a four-month-long trial that Noshir Gowadia wove a "world-wide web of deception" to sell military secrets to China.

"The desperation began once he started building that house," Sorenson said.

Gowadia's defense attorney said it's true the engineer gave China a design for a cruise missile exhaust nozzle, but he said Gowadia based his work on information that was already publicy available. The design was "basic stuff" and "not classified," said David Klein.



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[joeybee12]

1. Well, his first mistake was to buy when the market was too high...should have

waited and would not have had to sell so many secrets.

:sarcasm:

[Oregone]

2. He built

Had he bought, he may of had to design them a nuke