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Criminal

May 1, 2002

Fugitive Who Sold Nuclear Devices Gets Time

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday imposed a 40-month prison sentence on an Orange County engineer who fled the country and lived in Spain for 16 years before being captured to face trial for illegally exporting nuclear trigger devices to Israel.

By Susan McRae
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday imposed a 40-month prison sentence on an Orange County engineer who fled the country and lived in Spain for 16 years before being captured to face trial for illegally exporting nuclear trigger devices to Israel.
        Richard Kelly Smyth, 72 and formerly...

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