Sub Steel Test Falsifier Sentenced
Recall Ms. Elaine Thomas, the former Director of Metallurgy at Bradken Inc. who disagreed with contractural requirements concerning the steel used in Navy submarine construction? We covered the initial story here:
She’s had her day in court. David sends.
Auburn woman falsified steel tests for Navy subs for 32 years. Now she faces prison
Peter Talbot
The former lab director of the U.S. Navy’s leading supplier of high-yield steel castings for submarines was sentenced to prison Monday in U.S. District Court for falsifying steel-strength tests for about half of castings it produced for the Navy for 32 years.
Elaine Thomas, 67, was the director of metallurgy at Bradken Inc. She was sentenced to two years, six months in prison for major fraud after she pleaded guilty to the crime in November. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington, the Auburn woman also will have to pay a $50,000 fine.
Prosecutors requested Thomas be sentenced to nearly six years in prison. At her sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle described the crime as one of “pride and ego, that in some way she knew better than those who set the standards.”
As a former Navy tester I’m appalled at the arrogance of this woman. Also astounding is how long she was able to get away with falsifying her test data. The boys and girls at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center fell victim to complacency, and were derelict in their duties concerning due diligence for requirements verification.
Thanks, David.
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Good!
She needs to go down in one of those sub tubs that she falsified data for, listen to the creaks and groans of the metal, not knowing when/if a plate will give way and drown her worthless ass.
If she could be put in one of those alone, good.
If not, my sympathies to the bubbleheads that would have to go down with her.
Depends which side of the hull she’s on for the dive.
At the very least put her in a Navy brig.
I was stunned that after putting our bubbleheads at risk for over three decades, she got less than 3 years. Shoulda been three kellhaulings… on a supertanker.
Speaking of ‘sub-human’ (see what I did there?) cretins, Jonathan Toebbe plead guilty yesterday to selling nuke sub secrets to a foreign power:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/14/maryland-man-pleads-guilty-nuclear-secrets-foreign-government-00008742
Good. Hopefully his wife gets something similar.
Nothing like a slap on the wrist for 32 YEARS of sh^tbaggery! What a farce. Skrunt. And a pox on the Judge for that light of a sentence. To me, even the six years woulda been too short. 😡
“Strap on” Sally and the gals will take care of her, real soon….
More likely she will play a part in a prison theater group remake of Bruce Lee’s “Fists of Fury”.
harder and gooder, rinse, repeat
She will always have a place at All-Points Logistics.
Surprised she has never worked for them.
Phildo could never let that talent go by the “port side”.
Wonder if Lori Benton was involved in the defense?
TWO AND A HALF FUCKIN’ YEARS?!?!?!
Get an old sub, setup remote control so it can dive and surface, MacGyver part of it into a brig, pack up 30 months of MREs and potable water, and let her serve her sentence at test depth.
This… THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE.
For 23 years.
I say if she makes it to 100, she gets out.
If not, ROT SKRUNTWATABLE.
Falsified tests for 32 years? Sentence her to 32 years
It’s probably a good thing I’m not the judge because in my mind you can take the total number of sailors on those subs and find her guilty of thousands of instances of attempted murder.
If nobody checks the checker, there’s a problem.