LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Two people from southern Indiana and Kentucky pleaded guilty on charges of sending confidential military information to China from a Louisville-based company.Â
Phil Pascoe of Floyds Knobs, Indiana, and Scott Tubbs of Georgetown, Kentucky, admitted Wednesday that through their company, Quadrant Magnetics, they sent drawings and plans about U.S. military projects to China without a license from the U.S. government between January 2012 and December 2018.
The drawings were owned by two U.S. companies and contained information for items used in a variety of military and defense items, including aircraft, radars and weapons.
Prosecutors have said Quadrant Magnetics, which is headquartered in Louisville, imported "rare earth materials" from China that were then used in components for the F-16 and F-18 and "other defense assets."
The U.S. doesn't allow Chinese-based earth materials to be used in defense projects.
On Wednesday, Pascoe, president of the company, and Tubbs pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, which carries a possible sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to court records.
They will be formally sentenced in federal court in June.
The Louisville-based magnetics company is also charged but the case is still pending. A trial is scheduled for next week.Â
A third defendant, Monica Pascoe, was given a sentence of pre-trial diversion with her charges to be dismissed once completed.
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