Defense contractor Reginald Cannon was ordered to repay $315,944 and fined $200,000 for defrauding the Army in the manufacture of M98 masks, the Justice Department said Oct. 4, 2023. (File)
A New York defense contractor was ordered to pay over a half-million dollars in financial penalties for his “very stupid decision” to use cheap, unapproved materials in filters designed to protect soldiers from toxic gases and nuclear radiation.
Reginald Cannon, 55, was fined $200,000 and told to repay $315,944, the Justice Department said in a statement Wednesday. He also received two years of probation at his sentencing Monday in U.S. district court in Buffalo.
He originally faced the possibility of up to two years and three months in prison after
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