{"id":4144,"date":"2004-02-22T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2021-03-20T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T12:36:10","slug":"polygraph-manufacturer-stoelting-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-export-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/22\/polygraph-manufacturer-stoelting-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-export-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph Manufacturer Stoelting CEO Pleads Guilty to Export Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> reports in an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-xpm-2004-02-22-0402220222-story.html\">&#8220;CEO pleads guilty to export charge&#8221;<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The chief executive officer of a suburban manufacturer and the company itself pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Chicago to trying to export polygraph machines to China without a license.<\/p><p>Lavern Miller, 79, the CEO and chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stoeltingco.com\/\">Stoelting Co.<\/a> of Wood Dale, faces up to 16 months in prison, Assistant U.S. Atty. Brian Havey said. The company could be fined up to $500,000.<\/p><p>After the U.S. Department of Commerce denied the company a license to export five polygraphs in 1999, Miller admitted he tried to route the machines through a business associate in Italy. But United Parcel Service notified the Commerce Department.<\/p><p>The machines eventually were to be sold to law enforcement authorities in China, but U.S. officials denied the license because of China&#8217;s history of human-rights abuses, Havey said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For discussion of this article, see the AntiPolygraph.org message board thread, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1077488675\">Polygraph Maker Guilty of Export Violation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Tribune reports in an article titled, &#8220;CEO pleads guilty to export charge&#8221;: The chief executive officer of a suburban manufacturer and the company itself pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Chicago to trying to export polygraph machines to China without a license. Lavern Miller, 79, the CEO and chairman of Stoelting Co. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[503,461,187],"class_list":{"0":"post-4144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-lavern-a-miller","8":"tag-litigation","9":"tag-stoelting-co","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}