A former adjunct professor of electrical engineering at UCLA who was convicted of unlawfully exporting monolithic microwave integrated circuits to the People’s Republic of China lost an appeal to undo his 85-month prison sentence Friday.
Yi-Chi Shih was convicted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and sentenced pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2M5.1(a)(1), which provides for a base offense level of 26 if either “national security controls or controls relating to the proliferation of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or materials were evaded,” or “the offense involved a financial transaction with a country supporting international terrorism.”
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